PROMONTORY OF CARMEL, FROM THE SEA.
NORTHERN PALESTINE, OR GALILEE.
NORTHERN PALESTINE, OR GALILEE.
Enlarged from Keith Johnston’s Map.
SOUTHERN GALILEE AND NAZARETH.
SOUTHERN GALILEE AND NAZARETH.
IT is difficult to fix with precision the boundaries of Galilee and Samaria. Originally the Samaritan kingdom included the whole territory of the ten northern tribes from Dan to Bethel; but very soon it shrank within much narrower limits. Galilee, at first a small “circle,” as the name means, around Kadesh Naphtali, on the frontiers of Tyre,[[235]] had in the time of our Lord become a province of great extent stretching southward to the ridge of Carmel and the mountains of Gilboa. The Plain of Esdraelon, which under the kings of Israel had been in the centre of Samaria, was under the Romans its northern boundary, and belonged to Galilee. Jezreel and the other historic sites in the neighbourhood being so closely connected with the southern kingdoms have been spoken of in the preceding chapter. We now proceed to the region lying to the north of the plain.
