Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aro'er are deserted; 1 they shall be for adarim (flocks), 1 which shall lie down, 1 and none shall make them afraid. 1
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Deuteronomy 2:36From Aro'er, which is on the edge of Wadi Arnon, and from the town that is by the wadi, even unto Gil'ad, there was not one town too strong for us; Hashem Eloheinu delivered all unto us:
Joshua 13:16Territory to them from Aro'er, that is on the rim of the Arnon Valley, and the town that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain past Medeva;
Isaiah 5:17Then shall the kevasim feed as upon their pasture, 1 and the gerim (sojourners) will eat in the ruins of the rich. 1
Isaiah 7:23And it shall come to pass in that yom, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand gefen worth a thousand kesef, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
Jeremiah 48:19O inhabitant of Aro'er, 1 stand by the derech, and watch; 1 ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, 1 and say: What has happened? 1
Micah 4:4But they shall sit every man 1 under his gefen (vine) and under his te'enah (fig tree); 1 and none shall make them afraid; 1 for the mouth of Hashem Tzva'os hath spoken. 1
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 →