Roman province governed by Pontius Pilate

Usage examples of judea.

In Judea, Felix knew he was innocent but wanted a bribe for his release.

Ostensibly he had started for Judea to collect the elect, as he phrased it, under one banner.

She had also pressed the support key which had informed her that Salome was the name attached by legend to the daughter of Herodias, wife of King Herod of Judea, who was mentioned in two of the gospels of the New Testament, the holy book of the Christian religion.

Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

The road led across the flat, fertile countryside of the littoral plain toward the ocher hills of Judea, through the waking village of Ramleh.

The seeds of the faith, which had slowly arisen in the rocky and ungrateful soil of Judea, were transplanted, in full maturity, to the happier climes of the Gentiles.

During that time the ten tribes, which on the division of the people were called Israel, were conquered by the Chaldeans and led captive into their lands, while the two tribes which were called Judah, and had the seat of their kingdom in Jerusalem, remained in the land of Judea.

First, the Assyrian colonies, which came and occupied the lands of the tribes, filled the kingdom of Samaria with dogmas of the Magi, which very soon penetrated into the kingdom of Judea.

There were those famous Ports of Idumea, whence the fleets of Phoenicia and Judea, coasting the Arabian peninsula, went into the Persian gulf, to seek there the pearls of Hevila, the gold of Saba and of Ophir.

Discerning that when the existing settlement was broken up some form of government must needs follow, they suggested the conversion of Judea into a province.

Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the field, to carry it to the reapers.

In the tens of centuries that had rolled by since the tribe of Abraham made the political decision to promote its local tribal deity, Yahweh, as the one and only god in the cosmos, worship of the Great Mother had continued in Judea and Israel.

If he could not himself see into the prisons of Judea, he could examine them with the eyes of others.

Now then, hand over the cities which you have seized and the tribute money of the places which you have conquered outside the borders of Judea.

They died doubtless in the cells of one of the castles which spot the waysides of Judea.