Aroer in the Bible

Meaning: heath; tamarisk

Exact Match

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesPasturing The Flock

Thematic Bible



There was no city that was inaccessible to us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The Lord our God gave everything to us.

“At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

While Israel lived 300 years in Heshbon and its villages, in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, why didn’t you take them back at that time?


Uzzia the Ashterathite,
Shama and Jeiel the sons of Hotham the Aroerite,


to those in Aroer, in Siphmoth, and in Eshtemoa;


from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead—the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites—from Aroer which is by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.


He defeated 20 of their cities with a great slaughter from Aroer all the way to the entrance of Minnith and to Abel-keramim. So the Ammonites were subdued before the Israelites.


from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)


References

Hastings

Easton

American

Fausets

Morish

Smith

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