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2 Kings 25:6

So they toke the king, and brought him to [Nabuchodonosor] the king of Babylon to Ribla, where they gaue iudgement vpon him.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Prophecy;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom;   Thompson Chain Reference - Captives;   Riblah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jerusalem;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Jeremiah, the Book of;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Egypt;   Exile;   Gedaliah;   Israel;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Judah, tribe and kingdom;   Lamentations;   War;   Zedekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Babylon, History and Religion of;   Riblah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jeremiah;   Lamentations, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Riblah ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Riblah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;   Riblah;   Zedekiah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Rib-Lah;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Zedekiah;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Riblah;   Zedekiah (2);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
Hebrew Names Version
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Bavel to Rivlah; and they gave judgment on him.
King James Version
So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
English Standard Version
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
New Century Version
so they captured Zedekiah and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There he passed sentence on Zedekiah.
New English Translation
They captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where he passed sentence on him.
Amplified Bible
So they seized the king (Zedekiah) and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah [on the Orontes River], and sentence was passed on him.
New American Standard Bible
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.
World English Bible
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they tooke the King, and caried him vp to the King of Babel to Riblah, where they gaue iudgement vpon him.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then they seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they spoke their judgment on him.
Berean Standard Bible
The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him.
Contemporary English Version
Zedekiah was taken to Riblah, where Nebuchadnezzar put him on trial and found him guilty.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then they took the king and brought him up to the king of Bavel in Rivlah, where they passed judgment on him.
Darby Translation
And they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon unto Riblah; and they pronounced judgment upon him,
Easy-to-Read Version
The Babylonians took King Zedekiah to the king of Babylon at Riblah. The Babylonians decided to punish Zedekiah.
George Lamsa Translation
So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Diblath; and he pronounced judgment against him.
Good News Translation
Zedekiah was taken to King Nebuchadnezzar, who was in the city of Riblah, and there Nebuchadnezzar passed sentence on him.
Lexham English Bible
So they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.
Literal Translation
And they seized the king and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they toke the kynge, and led him vp to the kynge of Babilon vnto Reblatha. And he gaue iudgmet vpon him.
American Standard Version
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
Bible in Basic English
And they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah to be judged.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
King James Version (1611)
So they tooke the King, and brought him vp to the King of Babylon, to Riblah, and they gaue iudgement vpon him.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Reblatha; and he gave judgment upon him.
English Revised Version
Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei ledden the king takun to the king of Babiloyne, in to Reblatha, which spak dom with him, `that is, with Sedechie.
Update Bible Version
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment on him.
Webster's Bible Translation
So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.
New King James Version
So they took the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they pronounced judgment on him.
New Living Translation
They captured the king and took him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.
New Life Bible
The Babylonians took the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And Nebuchadnezzar told him how he must be punished.
New Revised Standard
Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence on him.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they seized the king, and brought him up unto the king of Babylon, at Riblah, - and they pronounced upon him sentence of judgment.
Douay-Rheims Bible
So they took the king, and brought him to the king of Babylon, to Reblatha, and he gave judgment upon him.
Revised Standard Version
Then they captured the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, who passed sentence upon him.
Young's Literal Translation
and they seize the king, and bring him up unto the king of Babylon, to Riblah, and they speak with him -- judgment.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him.

Contextual Overview

1 And it fortuned, that in the ninth yere of his raigne, the tenth day of the tenth moneth, Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon came, he & all his hoast, against Hierusalem, and pitched against it, and made engins against it on euery syde. 2 And the citie was besieged vnto the eleuenth yere of king Zedekia. 3 And the ninth day of the moneth, there was so great hunger in the citie, that there was no bread for the people of the lande. 4 And the citie was broken vp, and all the men of armes [fled] by night by a way through a gate [which is] betweene two walles by the kinges garden (the Chaldees lying about the citie:) And the king went the way toward the playne. 5 And the souldiers of the Chaldees folowed after the king, and toke him in the playne of Iericho: and all his army were scattered away from him. 6 So they toke the king, and brought him to [Nabuchodonosor] the king of Babylon to Ribla, where they gaue iudgement vpon him. 7 And they slue the sonnes of Zedekia before his eyes, and he put out the eyes of Zedekia, and fettered him with chaynes, and carryed him to Babylon.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they took: 2 Chronicles 33:11, Jeremiah 21:7, Jeremiah 34:21, Jeremiah 34:22, Jeremiah 38:23, Lamentations 4:19, Lamentations 4:20, Ezekiel 17:20, Ezekiel 17:21, Ezekiel 21:25-27

Riblah: 2 Kings 23:33, Jeremiah 52:9

gave judgment upon him: Heb. spake judgment with him

Reciprocal: Numbers 34:11 - Riblah Deuteronomy 28:36 - bring thee 2 Kings 14:13 - took Amaziah 2 Kings 20:18 - thy sons Isaiah 39:7 - of thy sons Jeremiah 34:3 - and thine Jeremiah 39:5 - Riblah Ezekiel 19:12 - strong Ezekiel 21:26 - Remove Habakkuk 1:10 - scoff Zephaniah 1:8 - the princes

Cross-References

Genesis 16:3
And Sarai Abrams wyfe toke Hagar her mayde the Egyptian, after Abram hadde dwelled ten yeres in the lande of Chanaan, and gaue her to her husbande Abram to be his wyfe.
Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham rose vp early in the mornyng, and tooke bread, and a bottel of water, and gaue it vnto Hagar, puttyng it on her shoulder, and the lad also, and sent her away: who departing, wandered vp and downe in the wildernesse of Beer seba.
Genesis 25:1
Abraham proceeded further, and toke hym another wyfe, called Cetura.
Genesis 25:2
Whiche bare hym Zimram, and Iocsan, and Medan, and Midian, and Iesbac, and Suah.
Genesis 25:11
And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isahac, and Isahac dwelled by the well of liuing and seeing me.
Genesis 25:13
And these are the names of the sonnes of Ismael, accordyng to the names of their kindred: the eldest sonne of Ismael, Nabaioth, and Cedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,
Genesis 25:14
And Misma, and Duma, and Massa, Hadar, and Thema,
Genesis 25:15
Ietur, Naphis, and Cedina.
Genesis 30:4
And she gaue him Bilha her handmayde to wyfe: and Iacob went in vnto her.
Genesis 30:9
When Lea sawe that she had left bearyng chyldren she toke Zilpha her mayde, and gaue her Iacob to wyfe.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

To Riblah - See 2 Kings 23:33 note. A position from where Nebuchadnezzar could most conveniently superintend the operations against Tyre and Jerusalem. In the absence of the monarch, the siege of Jerusalem was conducted by a number of his officers, the chief of whom were Nebuzar-adan, the captain of the guard, and Nergal-shar-ezer (Neriglissar), the Rab-mag Jeremiah 39:3, Jeremiah 39:13.


 
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