Isaiah 17:2

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The cities of Aroer are abandoned. They will be used for herds, which will lie down there in peace.

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  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a resting place for sheep. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
  • Mic 4:4 : 4 Each will sit under his own grapevine or under his own fig tree without any fear. The LORD of Heaven’s Armies has decreed it.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 The seacoast will be used as pasture lands by the shepherds and as pens for their flocks.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 Then the dead bodies of these people will be left on the ground for the birds and wild animals to eat. There will not be any survivors to scare them away.
  • Num 32:34 : 34 The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon(it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us– the LORD our God gave them all to us.
  • Deut 3:12 : 12 Distribution of the Transjordanian Allotments This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.
  • Josh 13:16 : 16 Their territory started at Aroer(on the edge of the Arnon Valley) and included the city in the middle of the valley, the whole plain of Medeba,
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Lambs will graze as if in their pastures, amid the ruins the rich sojourners will graze.
  • Isa 7:21 : 21 At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.
  • Isa 7:23-25 : 23 At that time every place where there had been a thousand vines worth a thousand shekels will be overrun with thorns and briers. 24 With bow and arrow men will hunt there, for the whole land will be covered with thorns and briers. 25 They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.
  • Jer 48:19 : 19 You who live in Aroer, stand by the road and watch. Question the man who is fleeing and the woman who is escaping. Ask them,‘What has happened?’

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