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Lysanias

From: Concise Bible Dictionary: L By: George A. Morrish

Luke 3:1

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Tetrarch of Abilene, of whom nothing more is recorded (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)). He is mentioned by Josephus (Ant. 15. 4, 1).

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