Isaiah 17:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and no one shall make them afraid.

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  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the Ammonites a resting place for flocks: and you shall know that I am the LORD.
  • Mic 4:4 : 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and none shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 And the seacoast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 And the carcasses of this people will be meat for the birds of the sky, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will fray them away.
  • Num 32:34 : 34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, and Aroer,
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 From Aroer by the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not a city too strong for us; the LORD our God delivered all unto us.
  • Deut 3:12 : 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half the mountain of Gilead, and its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
  • Josh 13:16 : 16 And their border was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.
  • Isa 7:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow and two sheep;
  • Isa 7:23-25 : 23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns. 24 With arrows and with bows shall men come there; because all the land shall become briers and thorns. 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
  • Jer 48:19 : 19 O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch; ask him who flees and her who escapes, 'What has happened?'

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    13Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

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    12Thus says the LORD of hosts: Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be a habitation for shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

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    9In that day his strong cities shall be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

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    19O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way and watch; ask him who flees and her who escapes, 'What has happened?'

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