Category:Nabatean Kings (subject)
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Nabatean Kings ruled in the kingdom of Nabatea, east of Jordan.
Overview
List of major Nabatean Kings
- Aretas I, 2nd cent. BCE
- First known king of the Nabateans
- Mentioned in 2 Maccabees 5:8
- Rabbel I
- Aretas I's successor, around 140 BCE
- Aretas II, 120/110 to 96 BCE
- A contemporary of Alexander Jannaeus
- Obodas I, 96-87 BCE
- Succeeded his father Aretas II
- Defeated the Hasmoneans in 93 BCE in a battle on the Golan Hights
- Died in battle against the Seleucids, but saved the kingdom from invasion
- Was Worshiped as a god even after his death
- Aretas III Philhellenos, 87 to 62 BCE
- Was the son of Obodas I
- Conquered Damascus from the Seleucids in 84 BCE.
- Defeated by Tigranes the Great, lost briefly control of Damascus, 72-69 BCE.
- Supported John Hyrcanus II against Aristobulus II
- The Roman general Scaurus subdued him
- Obodas II, 62-60 BCE
- Malichus I, 60-30 BCE
- Was the son of Obodas II
- Supported the Parthian invasion in 40 BCE
- Herod the Great led the Roman reaction against the Nabateans
- Obodas III, 30-9 BCE
- Aretas IV Philopatris, 9 BCE to 40 CE
- The greatest Nabatean king was recognized by Augustus
- His daughter Phasaelis married Herod Antipas but was then divorced--an act that was condemned by John the Baptist
- Defeated Herod Antipas in battle in 36 CE, but the Roman emperor Tiberius dispatched the governor of Syria.
- Received Damascus back from Caligula
- Malichus II, 40 to 70 CE
- Supported the Romans during the Jewish War.
- Lost control of Damascus
- Nabatean trade was weakened as the Romans diverted the perfume and spice cargos to Egypt
- Rabbel II Soter, 70 to 106 CE
- Succeeded his father Malichus II, when he was still a child.
- At his death in 106 CE, the Nabatean kingdom was absorbed into the Roman Empire.
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