Ezekiel 6:14

Diblath. This place cannot be definitely identified. The name does not appear elsewhere in the Bible. Almon-diblathaim, a dual form, is mentioned in Num. 33:46, 47; and Beth-diblathaim in Jer. 48:22. These two towns, perhaps identical, were in Moab, probably to be identified with the modern Khirbet Deleilat esh-Sherqiyeh on the tableland on the eastern border beyond which lay the great desert that stretches eastward. Another possibility is that Diblath should read, “Riblah,” the “r” in Hebrew having been mistaken for a “d,” the two letters being very similar. Riblah is about 52 mi. (83.2 km.) south-southwest of Hamath. The town was used by Egyptian and Babylonian kings as a base of military operations in Syria (2 Kings 23:33; 25:5, 6). An alternative translation of the passage is “from the wilderness toward Riblah,” an expression analogous to “from Dan to Beer-sheba.” Thus, the whole region from the wilderness in the south to Riblah in the north would become a wilderness.