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{{Infobox monarch
| name = Marduk-kabit-aḫḫēšu
| title = [[List of kings of Babylon|King of Babylon]]
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| reign = ca. 1157–1140 BC
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| predecessor = [[Enlil-nadin-ahi|Enlil-nādin-aḫe]]<br>([[Kassites|Kassite]] Dynasty)
| successor = [[Itti-Marduk-balatu (king)|Itti-Marduk-balāṭu]]
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| royal house = 2nd Dynasty of Isin
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'''Marduk-kabit-aḫḫēšu''', "[[Marduk]] is the most important among his brothers",<ref>''kabtu'', CAD K, vol. 8 (1971), p. 26.</ref> ca. 1157–1140 BC,<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Libanukasabas - Medizin | volume = 7 | author = J. A. Brinkman | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | pages = 376–377 }}</ref> was the founder of the 2nd Dynasty of [[Isin]], which was to rule [[Babylon]] until around 1025 BC. He apparently acceded in the aftermath of the [[Elam]]ite overthrow of the [[Kassites|Kassite]] Dynasty. His name and length of reign are most clearly ascertained from the ''Babylonian King List C''<ref group=i>''Babylonian King List C''.</ref> which gives 18 years for his rule.<ref group=nb>''King List A'' ii 17, only gives 17 years.</ref>

==Biography==

The name of the dynasty, ''BALA PA.ŠE'', is a wordplay<ref group=nb>A paronomasia.</ref> on the term ''išinnu'', “stalk,” written as ''PA.ŠE'' and is the only apparent reference to the actual city of [[Isin]] as the seat of their rule was elsewhere.<ref>{{ cite book | title = Reallexikon der Assyriologie und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie: Ia – Kizzuwatna | author = J. A. Brinkman | volume = 5 | editor = Dietz Otto Edzard | publisher = Walter De Gruyter | year = 1999 | pages = 183–184 }}</ref> He should not be confused with the Middle- Assyrian scribe of the same name who authored two documents<ref group=i>KAR 24 and AfO TV [1927] 71-73.</ref> in the library of [[Tiglath-Pileser I|Tukultī-apil-Ešarra]] around 30 years later.

His [[Elam]]ite contemporary was probably Shilhak-Inshushinak I, the brother and successor of Kutir-Nahhunte II. In a series of campaigns he seems to have driven out the Elamite hordes. Whether there was an Elamite interregnum between the fall of the previous dynasty and the resumption of local rule or whether there was an overlap with the previous Kassite dynasty has not been determined.<ref>{{ cite book | title = History of Humanity-Scientific and Cultural Development: From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century B.C (Vol II) | chapter = The Post-Kassite Period |editor1=Ahmad Hasan Dani |editor2=Jean-Pierre Mohen |editor3=J. L. Lorenzo |editor4=V. M. Masson |editor5=T. Obenga | publisher = Unesco | year = 1996 | page = 487 }}</ref> The Babylonian tradition has his succession following seamless after that of the last Kassite king, but this is unlikely. After seeing off the Elamites, he turned his attention to [[Assyria]] and the north, capturing the city of Ekallatum.

The dynasty marks the transcendence of the cult of [[Marduk]], 6 of the 11 kings of the dynasty were to include his name as a theophoric element, and he was to become entrenched as the supreme deity of the pantheon. He was succeeded by his son, Itti-Marduk-balāṭu.

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