Place · Region
Judea
Named in 44 verses across 10 books, first in Ezra 9:9.
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In the Bible
All 1 verse in Ezra, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Ezra
- Ezra 9:9
Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Judea. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. AD 27Jesus Leaves Judea toward Galilee
- c. AD 29Good Samaritan Parable Taught
- c. AD 40Herod kills James
- c. AD 40Herod imprisons Peter
- c. AD 40An angel rescues Peter from prison
- no dateVoyage from Miletus to Jerusalem
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
After the Captivity this name was applied to the whole of the country west of the Jordan (Hag. 1:1, 14; 2:2). But under the Romans, in the time of Christ, it denoted the southernmost of the three divisions of Palestine (Matt. 2:1, 5; 3:1; 4:25), although it was also sometimes used for Palestine generally (Acts 28:21).
The province of Judea, as distinguished from Galilee and Samaria, included the territories of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Dan, Simeon, and part of Ephraim. Under the Romans it was a part of the province of Syria, and was governed by a procurator.