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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Aretas (King living at the time of the New Testament)
Aretas IV, king of the Nabataeans at Petra. His daughter was married to Herod Antipas until Antipas divorced her for Herodias, and the war that followed went against Antipas. An official of his held Damascus and tried to arrest Paul, who got away lowered over the wall in a basket.
Aretas IV, king of the Nabataeans at Petra. His daughter was married to Herod Antipas until Antipas divorced her for Herodias, and the war that followed went against Antipas. An official of his held Damascus and tried to arrest Paul, who got away lowered over the wall in a basket.
Aretas IV was king of the Nabataean kingdom based at Petra, whose daughter married Herod Antipas until Antipas divorced her to marry Herodias, an insult that led to war between the two rulers, a conflict Antipas lost. After the death of Emperor Tiberius, an official under Aretas controlled Damascus and sought to arrest Paul, who escaped the city by being lowered over the wall in a basket (2 Cor. 11:32-33; Acts 9:24-25). Aretas IV is well attested in Nabataean inscriptions and coinage found throughout the former Nabataean kingdom.
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- 2 Corinthians 11:32
