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Obodas I was King of the Nabateans from 96 BCE - 85 BCE. He was the successor of Aretas II, from whom he inherited the war with the Hasmonean kingdom
Hasmonean

The Hasmoneans were the ruling dynasty of the Hasmonean Kingdom of Israel , an independent Jewish state. The Hasmonean dynasty was established under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus, two decades after his brother Judas Maccabeus defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt in 165 BCE....
. He defeated them around 93 BCE on the Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
.

Then he ambushed Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus

Alexander Jannaeus , king of Judea from , son of John Hyrcanus, inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus, and appears to have married his brother's widow, Shlomtzion or "Shelomit", also known as Salome Alexandra, according to the Biblical law of Yibum , although Josephus is inexplicit on that point....
 near Gadara, just east of the Sea of Galilee
Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee, also Sea of Genneseret, Lake Kinneret or Lake Tiberias , is Israel's largest freshwater lake, being approximately 53 km in circumference, about 21 km long, and 13 km wide....
. Using camel cavalry, he forced Jannaeus into a valley where he completed the ambush thereby getting revenge for the Nabateans loss of Gaza
Gaza

Gaza is a Palestinian people city in the Gaza Strip, approximately southwest of Jerusalem, with a population of 410,000, making it the largest city under the control of the Palestinian National Authority....
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Moab
Moab

Moab is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in modern-day Jordan running along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. In ancient times, it was home to the kingdom of the Moabites, a people often in conflict with their Israelite neighbors to the west....
 and Gilead
Gilead

From the Scriptures, "Gilead" means hill of testimony or mound of witness, , a mountainous region east of the Jordan River, situated in the present-day Kingdom of Jordan....
, two mountains east of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, were returned.

Around 86 BCE the Seleucid ruler, Antiochus XII Dionysus
Antiochus XII Dionysus

Antiochus XII Dionysos , a ruler of the Greece Seleucid Empire who reigned 87–84 BC, was the fifth son of Antiochus VIII Grypus to take up the diadem....
 invaded Nabatea.






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Obodas I was King of the Nabateans from 96 BCE - 85 BCE. He was the successor of Aretas II, from whom he inherited the war with the Hasmonean kingdom
Hasmonean

The Hasmoneans were the ruling dynasty of the Hasmonean Kingdom of Israel , an independent Jewish state. The Hasmonean dynasty was established under the leadership of Simon Maccabaeus, two decades after his brother Judas Maccabeus defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt in 165 BCE....
. He defeated them around 93 BCE on the Golan Heights
Golan Heights

The Golan Heights is a contested, strategic plateau and mountainous region at the southern end of the Anti-Lebanon Mountains. The term Golan Heights actually has two separate meanings, one geography and one political:...
.

Then he ambushed Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus

Alexander Jannaeus , king of Judea from , son of John Hyrcanus, inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus, and appears to have married his brother's widow, Shlomtzion or "Shelomit", also known as Salome Alexandra, according to the Biblical law of Yibum , although Josephus is inexplicit on that point....
 near Gadara, just east of the Sea of Galilee
Sea of Galilee

The Sea of Galilee, also Sea of Genneseret, Lake Kinneret or Lake Tiberias , is Israel's largest freshwater lake, being approximately 53 km in circumference, about 21 km long, and 13 km wide....
. Using camel cavalry, he forced Jannaeus into a valley where he completed the ambush thereby getting revenge for the Nabateans loss of Gaza
Gaza

Gaza is a Palestinian people city in the Gaza Strip, approximately southwest of Jerusalem, with a population of 410,000, making it the largest city under the control of the Palestinian National Authority....
.

Moab
Moab

Moab is the historical name for a mountainous strip of land in modern-day Jordan running along the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. In ancient times, it was home to the kingdom of the Moabites, a people often in conflict with their Israelite neighbors to the west....
 and Gilead
Gilead

From the Scriptures, "Gilead" means hill of testimony or mound of witness, , a mountainous region east of the Jordan River, situated in the present-day Kingdom of Jordan....
, two mountains east of the Dead Sea and the Jordan, were returned.

Around 86 BCE the Seleucid ruler, Antiochus XII Dionysus
Antiochus XII Dionysus

Antiochus XII Dionysos , a ruler of the Greece Seleucid Empire who reigned 87–84 BC, was the fifth son of Antiochus VIII Grypus to take up the diadem....
 invaded Nabatea. Both Antiochus and Obodas were killed but the invaders were defeated. The Nabataean Empire, however, was saved.

Obodas was buried in the Negev
Negev

The Negev is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The indigenous Negev Bedouin inhabitants of the region refer to the desert as al-Naqab ....
, at a place that was renamed in honor, Avdat
Avdat

Avdat or Ovdat or Obodat, the remains of a Nabataean road station for their caravans, is located on a mountain in the center of the Negev Desert in Israel on the road from Petra and Eilat....
. After his death Obodas was worshiped as a deity. He was succeeded by his son Aretas III
Aretas III

Aretas III was Rulers of Nabatea of the Nabataean kingdom from 87 to 62 BCE. Aretas ascended to the throne upon the death of his father, Obetas I, in 87 BCE....
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This article draws heavily on the :nl:Obodas I article in the Dutch-language Wikipedia, which was accessed in the version of September 15, 2008.

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