Riblah (on the east border)

• Numbers 34:10–11 marks out the east border: “The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain.”
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  • NUM 34:10–12, engwebp

    ¹⁰“‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

    ¹¹The border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain. The border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward.

    ¹²The border shall go down to the Jordan, and end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders around it.’”

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• Joshua 10:29 says, “Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.”
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  • JOS 10:29–30, engwebp

    ²⁹Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.

    ³⁰The LORD delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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• 2 Kings 23:31 calls Jehoahaz’s mother “Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah”, and 23:33 says of Jehoahaz, “Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem”. The Korean Revised Version writes 립나 in both verses (립나 예레미야의 딸; 하맛 땅 립나).
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  • 2KI 23:31–33, engwebp

    ³¹Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

    ³²He did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, according to all that his fathers had done.

    ³³Pharaoh Necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem; and put the land to a tribute of one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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• 2 Kings 25:20–21 says, “Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah. The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath.” The Korean Revised Version writes 립나 for Riblah in both verses.
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  • 2KI 25:18–21, engwebp

    ¹⁸The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

    ¹⁹and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king’s face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.

    ²⁰Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

    ²¹The king of Babylon attacked them and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was carried away captive out of his land.

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Numbers 34:11 says that the east border goes down from Shepham to Riblah, and Joshua 10:29 that Joshua passed from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought against Libnah. 2 Kings 23:33 and 25:21 name a place in the land of Hamath, which the Korean Revised Version writes 립나 and WEB Riblah. In the same passage, 23:31–33, the Korean Revised Version writes 립나 also in 립나 예레미야, which names Hamutal’s father and which WEB reads “Jeremiah of Libnah”; at Numbers 34:11 it writes 리블라. The text does not say whether this place in the land of Hamath is the Riblah of Numbers 34:11, nor how it stands to Libnah. This collection records it as its own entry, Riblah (in the land of Hamath), apart from that Riblah and from Libnah, and decides nothing.