And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem. — Rather, removed him. 3 Esdr. 1:33 adds “from reigning,” which is almost demanded by the context. The LXX. follows the reading of 2 Kings 23:33 : “And Pharaoh-necho bound him in Riblah, in the land of Hamath, from reigning (i.e., so that he reigned not) in Jerusalem “; but the Syriac and Vulg. support the existing Hebrew text. The LXX. begins the verse thus: “And he did the evil before the Lord, according to all that his fathers had done; “and adds, after the clause about the fine, “and the king took him away to Egypt.”
Condemned the land in. — Fined the land. — So Kings: “laid a fine upon the land.”
Riblah was in Syria, on the river Orontes. Necho may have ordered or enticed Jehoahaz to meet him there.