Dict: easton - Abilene

easton:

Abilene @ a plain, a district lying on the east slope of the Anti
- Lebanon range; so called from its chief town, Abila kjv@Luke:3:1), which stood in the Suk Wady Barada, between Heliopolis (Baalbec) and Damascus, 38 miles from the former and 18 from the latter. Lysanias was governor or tetrarch of this province.