Isaiah 17:2
The towns of Aroer will be abandoned. Flocks will live in the streets and rest there, because there won't be anyone to chase them away.
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Deuteronomy 2:36No town had walls too high for us to conquer—from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, the town in the valley, all the way to Gilead. The Lord our God handed them all over to us.
Joshua 13:16Their territory stretched from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon valley, from the town in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau of Medeba;
Isaiah 5:17Lambs will graze as in their own pasture; fattened livestock and goats will feed among the ruins of the rich.
Isaiah 7:23At that time everywhere that once had a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will only have brambles and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19Stand at the roadside and watch, you who live in Aroer. Ask the men and women who are running away to escape, “What's happened?”
Micah 4:4Everyone will be able to sit under their own vine and their own fig tree, for there will be no one to make them afraid. I, the Lord Almighty, have spoken!
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 17:2-6
The Doom of Syria and Israel. ( b. c. 712.) 1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid. 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts. 4 And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob… Read the whole commentary →