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Aretas, dynastic name of the Nabataean kings of Petra. The best-known Aretas was Aretas IV, 9 B.C.-A.D. 49, ruler of S Palestine, most of Jordan, N Arabia, and Damascus. His daughter was married to Herod Antipas, who put her away in favor of Herodias. Aretas attacked (A.D. 36) Antipas and defeated him, but Rome took Antipas' part. Tiberius' death (A.D. 37) saved Aretas from the Roman army.

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Aretas (Arabic: Haritha), the Greek form of a name borne by kings of the Nabataeans resident at Petra in Arabia.

Aretas I was a king in the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (2 Macc. 5:8).
Aretas II ruled Nabatea from 120 or 110 to 96 BCE.
Aretas III ruled Nabatea from 87 to 62 BCE. He supported Hyrcanus II against Aristobulus II, but was obliged to retreat by Pompey (64 BC), and in 62 BC paid a bribe of 300 talents to Marcus Aemilius Scaurus.
Aretas IV Philopatris was the father-in-law of Herod Antipas (Josephus, Ant. xviii.5.I,3). In 2 Cor. 11:32 he is described as ruler of Damascus at the time of Paul's conversion. Herod Antipas had married a daughter of Aretas, but afterwards discarded her in favour of Herodias. This led to a war with Aretas in which Antipas was defeated.
An Aretas is mentioned in some translations of 1 Macc. 15:22, but the true reading is probably Ariarathes (king of Cappadocia).