Places of the Bible
Riblah
first named in 2 Kings 23:33 · City
![Damascus, Palmyra and Baalbek. An old bridge on the River Oeontes, [i.e., Orontes] near Riblah. II Kings 23:33](https://cdn.biblionapp.com/places/riblah_1001_v1.jpg)
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Riblah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 6 verses
- Reign of Jehoahaz (Shallum) · 608 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Zedekiah · 596 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Ezekiel · 592 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Fruitful, an ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine, 35 miles north-east of Baalbec, and 10 or 12 south of Lake Homs, on the eastern bank of the Orontes, in a wide and fertile plain. Here Nebuchadnezzar had his head-quarters in his campaign against Jerusalem, and here also Necho fixed his camp after he had routed Josiah’s army at Megiddo (2 Kings 23:29-35; 25:6, 20, 21; Jer. 39:5; 52:10). It was on the great caravan road from Palestine to Carchemish, on the Euphrates. It is described (Num. 34:11) as “on the eastern side of Ain.” A place still called el Ain, i.e., “the fountain”, is found in such a position about 10 miles distant.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 11 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.