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Riblah

A point on Canaan’s eastern border, between Shepham and the sea of Chinnereth (Numbers 34:11). ⚠ Whether it is the SAME Riblah as the famous one is genuinely open. That Riblah, on the Orontes in Syria, is where Pharaoh Neco deposed Jehoahaz and where Nebuchadnezzar killed Zedekiah’s sons in front of him before blinding him (2 Kings 23-25, not yet on these pages) — but it sits a long way north of a line that is about to come down to the Sea of Galilee, and many readers take this one to be a different place entirely. This entry does not choose; the coordinates point at the Syrian site and are marked approximate. ⭐ The Douay-Rheims supplies a detail no other version on either shelf has: following the Vulgate’s contra fontem Daphnim it prints ‘to Rebla over against the fountain of DAPHNIS’, identifying the neighbouring spring with Daphne, the watered suburb of Antioch — an identification the Hebrew does not make. It does at least keep the fountain, which is exactly what the Hebrew’s ‘Ain’ means.

in the text Num 34:11
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