II. GAMALA, a town beyond Jordan in the Gaulanitis; it was called Gamala, because its situation in some sort resembled the form of a camel. It was part of Agrippa’s kingdom, but the inhabitants refusing to submit to this Prince, it was besieged, first by Agrippa’s forces, and afterwards by the Roman army, which after a long siege, took and sacked it.
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