Ituraea

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A province on the east of the upper Jordan of which Herod Philip was made tetrarch (Luke 3:11Now 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 Iturea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, (Luke 3:1)). Its boundaries cannot be well defined, but it reached toward Damascus and embraced the southern slopes of Anti-Lebanon. Its name is derived from JETUR, son of Ishmael (Gen. 25:1515Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah: (Genesis 25:15)). See map under GALILEE.