Isaiah 17:2
The cities of Aroer will be abandoned. 1 They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will frighten them. 1
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1A declaration about Damascus. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:36From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, all the way to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. Yahweh our God gave them into our hands.
Joshua 13:16Their territory was from Aroer, on the edge of the Arnon River gorge, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plateau by Medeba.
Isaiah 5:17Then the sheep will feed as in their own pasture, and in the ruins, lambs will graze as foreigners. + 5:17 Some modern versions have and in the ruins of the rich, lambs will graze . 1
Isaiah 7:23At that time, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, 1 there will be nothing but briers and thorns. 1
Jeremiah 48:19Stand on the road and watch, you people who live in Aroer. 1 Ask the ones who are fleeing and escaping. Say, 'What has happened?' 1
Micah 4:4Instead, they will sit every person under his vine 1 and under his fig tree. 1 No one will make them afraid, 1 for the mouth of Yahweh of hosts has 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 →