Abilene is a region north of Galilee. During Jesus' public ministry, the non-Jew Lysanias briefly ruled it.
Luke 3:1In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip) was tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene,