Marduk is the chief god of ancient Babylon, a powerful deity who became the head of the Mesopotamian pantheon, known in the Bible as a major false god, often called Bel (Lord), whose idols would be shamed and terrorized when Babylon fell, as prophesied in Jeremiah 50:2 and Isaiah 46:1, contrasting with the God of Israel. The Bible portrays Marduk and Babylonian gods as powerless against Yahweh, contrasting their violent creation myth with the Lord's peaceful ordering of the world.
The name Marduk is mentioned explicitly only once in Scripture, in Jeremiah 50:2, “Babylon will be captured; Bel will be put to shame, Marduk filled with terror. Her images will be put to shame and her idols filled with terror.”Jeremiah here predicts how the false god would be “put to shame” when God brought judgment upon Babylon. The downfall of Babylon would prove that nation’s deities as the false and useless gods they were. Marduk’s title of Bel is mentioned in Isaiah 46:1 and Jeremiah 51:44.

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