Merib-baal Contender with Baal, (Ch1 8:34; Ch1 9:40), elsewhere called Mephibosheth (Sa2 4:4), the son of Jonathan. Merodach Death; slaughter, the name of a Babylonian god, probably the planet Mars (Jer 50:2), or it may be another name of Bel, the guardian divinity of Babylon. This name frequently occurs as a surname to the kings of Assyria and Babylon.