Matthew Poole and continuators on 2 Kings 20:12

12 ¶ At that time Berodach baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah : for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

Called Berodach-baladan, Isa. 39. 1. whose name Iosephus found in that famous Chaldaean Historian, Berosus. He seems to have been the King of Assyria's Vice-Roy in Babylon, and upon that terrible slaughter of 185 thousand in the Assyrian Host, and the death of Sennacherib, and the differences among his Sons, to have usurped an absolute Sovereignty over Babylon; and either himself or his Son destroyed the Assyrian Monarchy, and translated the Empire to Babylon.

Partly, for the reasons mentioned, 2 Chron. 32. 31. and partly, to assure himself of the Friendship and assistance of Hezekiah against the Assyrians, their common, and as yet, powerful Enemy.

Marginal references: Isa. 39. [illegible: 1+ letters].