So they took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him.

Ver. 6. To Riblah.] A city of Syria, which was afterwards called Apamia; as the Jerusalem Paraphrast on Num 34:11 showeth.

And they gave judgment upon him.] They, by public sentence, pronounced him perfidious, and perjured - see Ezekiel 17:18, - and dealt with him accordingly. Rabbi Solomon undertaketh to tell us how they rated him, and in what terms.

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