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Antipatris

Antipatris - a city built by Herod the Great, and called by this name in honour of his father, Antipater II of Judea[?]. It lay between Caesarea and Lydda, two miles inland, on the great Roman road from Caesarea to Jerusalem. To this place Paul was brought by night (Acts 23:31) on his way to Caesarea, from which it was distant 28 miles. It is identified with the modern, Ras-el-Ain, where rise the springs of Aujeh, the largest springs in Palestine.

From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)



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