Thus God by his providence fulfilled his threatening by his prophet Ezekiel, Ezekiel 17:12. Riblah was upon the borders of Canaan, as appeareth from Numbers 34:11; it was in the land of Hamath, of which we read 2 Kings 17:24, being one of those provinces in the dominion of the king of Assyria, from whence he brought men to place them in the land of Israel after that he had conquered the ten tribes. It is not usual for princes upon conquests to sit in judgment upon princes conquered, but the reason of it in this case was because Zedekiah was a tributary to the king of Babylon, and so subject to his power, having made a covenant with him, and secured his allegiance by his oath to him, and then rebelled against him, as we read, Ezekiel 17:13-18.
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Jeremiah 39:5
5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he gavea judgment upon him.