Judea

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.