![]() They are bounded toward the sun-setting, with the borders of the territory belonging to Ptolemais, and by Carmel which mountain had formerly belonged to the Galileans, but now belonged to the Tyrians to which mountain adjoins Gaba, which is called the City of Horsemen, because those horsemen that were dismissed by Herod the king dwelt therein they are bounded on the south with Samaria and Scythopolis, as far as the river Jordan on the east with Hippeae and Gadaris, and also with Ganlonitis, and the borders of the kingdom of Agrippa its northern parts are hounded by Tyre, and the country of the Tyrians. Now Phoenicia and Syria encompass about the Galilees, which are two, and called the Upper Galilee and the Lower. The borders of Galilee, split into Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee, were described by Josephus in his The Jewish War: The Hebrew form used in Isaiah 9:1 (or 8:23 in different Biblical versions) is in the construct state, leading to g'lil ha-goyím ( Hebrew: גְּלִיל הַגּוֹיִם), meaning 'Galilee of the nations', which refers to gentiles who settled there at the time that the book was written, either by their own volition or as a result of being deported there. The region's Hebrew name is גָּלִיל ( galíl), meaning 'district' or 'circle'. By this definition it overlaps with much of the administrative Northern District of Israel and with Southern Lebanon. This definition includes the plains of the Jezreel Valley north of Jenin and the Beth Shean Valley, the valley containing the Sea of Galilee, and the Hula Valley, although it usually does not include Haifa's immediate northern suburbs. It extends from the Israeli coastal plain and the shores of the Mediterranean Sea with Acre in the west, to the Jordan Rift Valley to the east and from the Litani in the north plus a piece bordering on the Golan Heights all the way to Dan at the base of Mount Hermon in the northeast, to Mount Carmel and Mount Gilboa in the south. Galilee refers to all of the area that is north of the Mount Carmel- Mount Gilboa ridge and south of the east–west section of the Litani River. Galilee traditionally refers to the mountainous part, divided into Upper Galilee ( הגליל העליון, ha-galil ha-elyon الجليل الأعلى, al-jalīl al-aʾlā) and Lower Galilee ( גליל תחתון, galil tahton الجليل الأسفل, al-jalīl al-asfal). Galilee ( / ˈ ɡ æ l ɪ l iː/ Hebrew: הַגָּלִיל, romanized: hagGālīl Arabic: الجليل, romanized: al-jalīl) is a region located in northern Israel and southern Lebanon.
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