Luke 3:1
[A.M. 4030. A.D. 26.]
of Tiberius <5086> [Tiberius Cesar.]
Pontius Pilate <4194 4091> [Pontius Pilate.]
Herod <2264> [Herod.]
his <846> [his.]
of Iturea <2484> [Ituraea.]
Ituraea was a province of Syria east of Jordan, now called Djedour, according to Burckhardt, and comprising all the flat country south of Djebel Kessoue as far as Nowa, east of Djebel el Sheikh, or mount Hermon, and west of the Hadj road. Trachonitis, according to Strabo and Ptolemy, comprehended all the uneven country on the east of Auranitis, now Haouran, from near Damascus to Bozra, now called El Ledja and Djebel Haouran. Abilene was a district in the valley of Lebanon, so called from Abila its chief town, eighteen miles N. of Damascus, according to Antoninus.
Luke 13:31
Get away from <1831> [Get.]
