* Damascus.
  26  Ac 9:24,25 
 * Aretas.
   This Aretas was an Arabian king, and the father-in-law of
   Herod Antipas, upon whom he made war in consequence of his
   having divorced his daughter.  Herod applied to Tiberius for
   help, who sent Vitellius to reduce Aretas, and to bring him
   alive or dead to Rome.  By some means or other Vitellius
   delayed his operations, and in the mean time Tiberius died;
   and it is probable that Aretas, who was thus snatched from
   ruin, availed himself of the favourable state of things, and
   seized on Damascus, which had belonged to his ancestors.