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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Diblath (Riblah)
Ezekiel's judgment runs from the wilderness to Diblah, meaning the whole length of the land. It is most likely a copyist's form of Riblah on the Orontes in Syria, the Babylonian headquarters where Zedekiah was blinded after watching his sons killed.
Ezekiel's judgment runs from the wilderness to Diblah, meaning the whole length of the land. It is most likely a copyist's form of Riblah on the Orontes in Syria, the Babylonian headquarters where Zedekiah was blinded after watching his sons killed.
Diblah is most likely a scribal variant of Riblah, a strategic town on the Orontes River in Syria that served as the Babylonian army's military headquarters during the fall of Jerusalem. Ezekiel 6:14 uses it as one boundary marker in a judgment oracle stretching "from the wilderness to Diblah," meaning the whole length of the land. Nebuchadnezzar's field headquarters at Riblah is where the captured king Zedekiah was blinded after watching his sons executed (2 Kings 25:6-7).
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- Ezekiel 6:14
