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1 Maccabees 5:25
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25 There they encountered some Nabateans[a] who received them peacefully and reported to them everything that had happened to their kindred in Gilead:

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  1. 1 Maccabees 5:25 Nabateans: a people of Arabic or Aramaic origin established southwest of Palestine; they became rich and powerful as caravaners moving commerce from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea and controlling all of the Transjordan as far as Damascus. It was a Nabatean governor from whom St. Paul escaped about A.D. 38 (2 Cor 11:32f).
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