What does the Bible say about the ancient city Petra?

Question

Can someone explain please.

Answer 1

Petra was first established sometime around the 6th century BC, by the Nabataean Arabs, a nomadic tribe who settled in the area and laid the foundations of a commercial empire that extended into Syria. Despite successive attempts by the Seleucid king Antigonus, the Roman emperor Pompey and Herod the Great to bring Petra under the control of their respective empires, Petra remained largely in Nabataean hands until around 100AD, when the Romans took over. It was still inhabited during the Byzantine period, when the former Roman empire moved its focus east to Constantinople, but declined in importance thereafter. The Crusaders constructed a fort there in the 12th century, but soon withdrew, leaving Petra to the local people until the early 19th century, when it was visited by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt.



Sorry not the bible but gives history of Petra.....

Answer 2

It says nothing. Some Christian scholars think that the book of Revelation alludes to the historical myth that the original Christians escaped the destruction of Jerusalem from 66-70 CE and hid out in Petra, but it doesn't say this specifically.

Answer 3

dont think it is mentioned in the bible but some of the other books that were omitted from the bible might mention it e.g. book of thomas ( not saying its in that thats just an example of a book that was omitted)