he gave the Jews another king called Herod. He was very wicked.

[Illustration: Map of Palestine at the time of Christ.]

The Jews longed to get rid of Herod, and many of them thought, 'It will
be all right when the Messiah comes. The Messiah will fight against
the Romans; He will drive them away from our land; and then He will be
our King instead of that wicked Herod.' But only a few Jews remembered
that Jesus was coming to fight against Satan and against sin.

The place where the Jews lived had four or five names. It was called
the Land of Canaan at the first, then the Land of Promise, and then the
Land of Israel. But we call it the Holy Land, or Palestine.

If you look at the map of Palestine, you will see a river running from
the north of Palestine to the south. That river is called the Jordan.
And Palestine is divided into four parts,--one at the top (we call that
the north), one at the bottom (we call that the south), one in the
middle, and one on the other or eastward side of the Jordan.

The part in the North is called Galilee. The part in the south is
called Judaea. The part in the middle is called Samaria. The part on
the other side of the Jordan is called Perea.

Palestine is full of hills, with great holes, called caves, in their
sides. Palestine is not very big; England is about six times, and New
York State about five times larger. Washington is called the capital
of the United States. The capital of Palestine was Jerusalem.

Jerusalem was a very beautiful city. It was built on four or five