Abilene
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A plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti-Lebanon range; so called from its chief town, Abila (Lk 3:1), which stood in the Suk Wady Barada, between Heliopolis (Baalbec) and Damascus, 38 miles from the former and 18 from the latter. Lysanias was governor or tetrarch of this province.
This entry includes text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897.
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