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The Babylonian command base where Zedekiah's sons were executed and Judah's last king was blinded
Aram (Syria)Historically Verified
The site is identified with modern Rableh on the Orontes River in Lebanon's northern Bekaa Valley. The location matches the strategic encampment that ancient Near Eastern military records describe.
A town on the Orontes River in the territory of Hamath that became the headquarters of two Near Eastern superpowers as they unraveled Judah. Pharaoh Necho summoned King Jehoahaz here in 609 BCE, deposed him, and put Jehoiakim on the throne (2 Kings 23:33). Twenty-two years later Nebuchadnezzar made Riblah his command base during the siege of Jerusalem — and when King Zedekiah was captured trying to flee the burning city, the Babylonians brought him to Riblah, executed his sons in front of him, then put out his eyes and led him in chains to Babylon (2 Kings 25:6-7).
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