Abilene

Place

A location only mentioned at Luk.3.1) only referred to as Abilene (Ἀβιληνή). Abilene, a district of the Syrian Decapolis; from Abila, the chief town, Lk. 3:1*

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Passages set here

Luke 3:1
Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,