Dict: easton - Riblah

easton:

Riblah @ fruitful, an ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine, 35 miles north-east of Baalbec, and 10 or 12 south of Lake Homs, on the eastern bank of the Orontes, in a wide and fertile plain. Here Nebuchadnezzar had his head-quarters in his campaign against Jerusalem, and here also Necho fixed his camp after he had routed Josiah's army at Megiddo ( kjv@2Kings:23:29-35 kjv@2Kings:25:6 kjv@2Kings:25:20, 21; kjv@Jeremiah:39:5 kjv@Jeremiah:52:10). It was on the great caravan road from Palestine to Carchemish, on the Euphrates. It is described kjv@Numbers:34:11) as "on the eastern side of Ain." A place still called el Ain, i.e., "the fountain", is found in such a position about 10 miles distant. (
See JERUSALEM.)