Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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 (2 Kings 23:29-35; 25:6, 20, 21; Jer. 39:5; 52:10). It was on the great caravan road from Palestine to Carchemish, on the Euphrates. , “the fountain”, is found in such a position about 10 miles distant.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(fertility), One of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of the land of Israel, as specified by Moses. (Numbers 34:11) It seems hardly possible, without entirely disarranging the specification or the boundary, that the Riblah in question can be the same with the following.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898) & Schaff's Bible Dictionary
RIB'LAH (fertility), an ancient city in the north-eastern frontier of Canaan. Num 34:10-11. Some regard it as being the same as Diblath, Eze 6:14, but Condor places Diblath at the modern village of Dibl, while Riblah is identified with the modern town on the east bank of the Orontes 35 miles northeast of Baalbek. The ancient town was upon the great road from Palestine to Babylon, and was a convenient military headquarters for the Babylonian kings and others invading the country.
Here the Egyptian king Pharaoh-nechoh put Jehoahaz in chains and made Eliakim king, and here Nebuchadnezzar brought Zedekiah, murdered his sons before his eyes, then put out his eyes and bound him in chains to be carried to Babylon. 2 Kgs 23:29-35; 2 Kgs 25:1-7; Jer 39:5-7. Riblah is now a mean and poor village in the midst of a plain of great fertility, and its position shows that it commanded the roads to Nineveh, Babylon, Phoenicia, and Palestine, making it of great strategic importance. About 10 miles west of Riblah is the great fountain of the Orontes. " Num 34:11.
Grove thinks the Riblah which marked the boundary of the Promised Land could not have been as far north as Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he would look for the former near the Sea of Galilee, in the vicinity of Banias. No such place has been found in that region, and most authorities agree that there was but one Riblah, and hence that it was on the Orontes, as stated above.
Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869)
quarrel; greatness to him