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Trachonitis
People's Dictionary of the Bible
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Trachonitis (trăk'o-nî'tis), a rugged region. One of the five Roman provinces into which the district northeast of the Jordan was divided in New Testament times. It lay to the east of Ituræa and Gaulonitis and to the south of Damascus, and included the remarkable region of the modern Lejah (see Argob) and part of the western slopes of Jebel Hauran. The emperor Augustus entrusted it to Herod the Great on the condition that he should clear it of robbers. Herod Philip succeeded to the tetrarchy. Luke 3:1. He died a.d. 33, and the emperor Caligula bestowed the province of Trachonitis upon Herod Agrippa I. Later it was part of the dominions of Herod Agrippa II., a.d. 63.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Trachonitis'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/t/trachonitis.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Trachonitis'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/t/trachonitis.html. 1893.
