Riblah

The entire country mourns his death, and the people take Yoakhaz, the son of Yoshiao, and make him king.

However, when Pharaoh finished his campaign up in Carchemish and came back down towards Israel, we read as follows in [Hebrew] in Melachim Bet [Hebrew] Pharaoh Necho takes Yoakhaz, puts him into jail in the city of Riblah in the land of Hamath up in Syria.

[Hebrew] stopping him from becoming king in Yerushalayim.

[Hebrew] And then he puts a tax on the land of a hundred kikar kesef and a kikar of gold.

We see it in Second Kings, Chapter 25, verses six and seven.

It tells us they captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.

They made Zedekiah watch as they slaughtered his sons.

He did what was evil in the Lord's sight, just as his ancestors had done.

Pharaoh Necho imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath to keep him from reigning in Jerusalem.

and he imposed on the land a fine of seventy-five hundred pounds of silver and seventy-five pounds of gold.

Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim son of Josiah king in place of his father Josiah, and changed Eliakim's name to Jehoiakim.

Number 20, and Nebuchadnezzar Aden, captain of the guard, took these.

He brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.

So that's all the way up in Western Syria, the same place where they took Zedekiah and executed him.

And it says in verse 21 that the king of Babylon smote them, slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

So Judah was carried away.

So just as we ended yesterday with the sad execution of the leader of Judah, so we end today with the sad executions of all of these other leaders of Judah who would not listen to Jeremiah.

Matter of fact, he gets all the way to Jericho, but there the Babylonian forces capture him and it gets really ugly.

They bring him to the camp of Nebuchadnezzar, a place called Riblah, and there the Bible says they take the sons of Zedekiah, the young sons, how sad this is, and they kill the sons of Zedekiah right in front of Zedekiah.

He watches as they kill his sons.

How sad.

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him.

Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence upon him.

The king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slew all the princes of Judah at Riblah.

He put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison till the day of his death.

Jerusalem is plundered and burned.

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold.

And from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the midst of the city.

And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

When they're slain, lie among their idols, around their altars, on every high hill, on all the mountaintops, under every green tree, and under every leafy oak, wherever they offered pleasing aroma to all their idols.

And I will stretch up my hand against them and make the land desolate and waste in all their dwelling places, from the wilderness to Riblah.

Then they will know that I am the Lord.

Yeah, prophesy to the mountains, just about I'm going to destroy your idols.

And it says in verse number 33 that Pharaoh Necho put him in bands.

That means he arrested him, put him in prison at Riblah in the land of Hamath.

that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he put the land to a tribute of 100 talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

So Egypt is flexing its muscles now.

And all his army was scattered from him.

Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.

They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

In the fifth month, the seventh day of the month, that was the 19th year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon.