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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Riblah
Twice a wartime headquarters. The town sat on the east bank of the Orontes in the land of Hamath, where the roads between Egypt, Palestine and Babylon crossed. Pharaoh Necho used it first, and later Babylon did the same.
Twice a wartime headquarters. The town sat on the east bank of the Orontes in the land of Hamath, where the roads between Egypt, Palestine and Babylon crossed. Pharaoh Necho used it first, and later Babylon did the same.
Riblah was a town on the east bank of the Orontes River in the land of Hamath, at a strategic crossroads between Egypt, Palestine, and Babylon. It served twice as a wartime headquarters, first for Pharaoh Necho after his victory over Josiah at Megiddo (2 Kings 23:33), then for Nebuchadnezzar during his final siege of Jerusalem, where the Judean king Zedekiah was brought to be blinded after watching his sons executed (2 Kings 25:6-7; Jeremiah 39:5-6; 52:9-11). Its ruins survive at the modern village of Ribleh in Syria.
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- 2 Kings 23:33
- 2 Kings 25:21
- Jeremiah 39:6
- Jeremiah 52:10
- Jeremiah 52:27
