In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of Damascus with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
The governor under Aretas the king. This satrap of King Aretas was, says Theophylact, the father-in-law of Herod. Josephus says that Herod Antipas, who put to death John the Baptist, married the daughter of Aretas.
