Riblah

Rib´luh

1 A city in the Lebanese Bekaa Valley that guarded the important international thoroughfare connecting Egypt with northern Syria and Mesopotamia. Here Pharaoh Neco II established the Egyptian headquarters following his defeat of Josiah at Megiddo in 609 BCE. Two decades later, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem, Nebuchadnezzar brought King Zedekiah to Riblah, killed his sons before his eyes, then blinded him and carried him off in chains to Babylon (2Kgs 25:5-7; Jer 52:9-11). Many of Judah’s leading officials were also brought to Riblah and executed at that time (2Kgs 25:19-21). 2 According to (Num 34:11), a border city on the northeast corner of the promised land (Ezek 6:14); but it is uncertain whether this is the same city as 1.