Galilee
Galilee, meaning circuit, is an area in northern Israel.Solomon rewarded Hiram for certain services rendered him by the gift of an upland plain among the mountains of Naphtali[?]. Hiram was dissatisfied with the gift, and called it "the land of Cabul". The Jews called it Galil.
Galilee embraces more than one-third of Israel, extending "from Dan on the north, at the base of Mount Hermon[?], to the ridges of Carmel and Gilboa on the south, and from the Jordan valley on the east away across the splendid plains of Jezreel and Acre to the shores of the Mediterranean on the west." In Roman times, Palestine was divided into three provinces, Judea, Samaria, and Galilee, which comprehended the whole northern section of the country, and was the largest of the three.
It was the scene of some of the most memorable events of Jewish history. Galilee also was the home of Jesus during at least thirty years of his life. The first three Gospels of the New Testament are chiefly taken up with Jesus' public ministry in this province.
See also: Sea of Tiberias
Initial text from Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897 -- Please update as needed
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this ambition he was not disappointed, for in the War of the Third
states, all of which were in turn liberally rewarded for their
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Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Berg, the archbishop of Mainz, and nine
the protection of Napoleon, whom they pledged themselves to support
longer recognized the Holy Roman Empire, and on 6 August the Habsburg
centuries had worn. The work of a long line of French kings and
thus consummated by Napoleon Bonaparte. The Holy Roman Empire had at
last emperor had to content himself with his newly appropriated title
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we have seen, not only the humiliation of Austria but the deepest
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