The northern region of ancient Israel, west of the Sea of Galilee and north of Samaria. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and 7 more in the King James text.
About Galilee
The northern region of ancient Israel, west of the Sea of Galilee and north of Samaria.
Its place in the story
Galilee was the region where Jesus spent most of his ministry, teaching in its towns and synagogues. Most of his disciples were Galileans, and after the resurrection he appeared to them there.
Galilee in Scripture (KJV)
“And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.”
“And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.”
“(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.”
“In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.”
“Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.”
“But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judaea in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither: notwithstanding, being warned of God in a dream, he turned aside into the parts of Galilee:”
The northern region of ancient Israel, west of the Sea of Galilee and north of Samaria. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and 7 more in the King James text.
What happened at Galilee?
Galilee was the region where Jesus spent most of his ministry, teaching in its towns and synagogues. Most of his disciples were Galileans, and after the resurrection he appeared to them there.