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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;brian kasbar, post: 2515920, member: 81834&quot;]More info:&nbsp; I was just in Jordan and found one of these for myself.&nbsp; Aretas IV was a very prominent ruler who controlled from Petra (where this was minted) to Damascus.&nbsp; His daughter married Herod and lived with him for a while until he divorced her and took uo his brother&#039;s wife, Herodias.&nbsp; Herodias&#039; daughter was Salome, who asked for the head of John the Baptist.</p><p>Also, in the stories of the Apostle Paul, we hear that Paul had to be lowered from a window by a basket to flee the Damascene king...who was this very same Aretas IV.</p><p>Finally, tradition states that one of the three kings, Balthasar, was the Arabian King.&nbsp; Some speculate it was Aretas who brought Frankencense to baby Jesus because Aretas&#039; kingdom were major traders in Frankencense.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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