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|txtha=(WH ἀρετάς, [[see]] [[their]] Introductory § 408), Ἁρέτα (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 8,1; (Buttmann, 20 (18))), ὁ, Aretas (a [[name]] [[common]] to [[many]] of the kings of [[Arabia]] Petraea or Nabathaean [[Arabia]] (cf. B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Nebaioth); cf. Schürer, Neutest. Zeitgesch. § 17b., p. 233 f); an Arabian [[king]] [[who]] made [[war]] (36> A.D. 36) on his Song of Solomon -in-[[law]] [[Herod]] Antipas for having repudiated his [[daughter]]; and [[with]] [[such]] [[success]] as [[completely]] to [[destroy]] his [[army]] (Josephus, Antiquities 18,5). In [[consequence]] of [[this]], [[Vitellius]], [[governor]] of [[Syria]], [[being]] [[ordered]] by [[Tiberius]] to [[march]] an [[army]] [[against]] Aretas, [[prepared]] for the [[war]]. But [[Tiberius]] [[meantime]] having died (March 16, 37> A.D. 37), he recalled his [[troops]] from the [[march]], dismissed [[them]] to [[their]] [[winter]] [[quarters]], and departed to [[Rome]]. After his [[departure]] Aretas held [[sway]] [[over]] the [[region]] of [[Damascus]] ([[how]] [[acquired]] we do [[not]] [[know]]), and placed an ethnarch [[over]] the [[city]]: Winer s RWB [[under]] the [[word]]; Wieseler in Herzog i., p. 488f; Keim in Schenkel i., p. 238f; Schürer in Riehm, p. 83 f; (B. D. American edition [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Aretas; Meyer on Acts , Einl. § 4 (cf. ibid., Wendt edition)).

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