Isaiah 17:2

Webster's Bible (1833)

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

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  • Ezek 25:5 : 5 I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and you shall know that I am Yahweh.
  • Mic 4:4 : 4 But they will sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; And no one will make them afraid: For the mouth of Yahweh of Hosts has spoken.
  • Zeph 2:6 : 6 The sea coast will be pastures, with cottages for shepherds and folds for flocks.
  • Jer 7:33 : 33 The dead bodies of this people shall be food for the birds of the sky, and for the animals of the earth; and none shall frighten them away.
  • Num 32:34 : 34 The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
  • Deut 2:36 : 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
  • Deut 3:12 : 12 This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead, and the cities of it, gave I to the Reubenites and to the Gadites:
  • Josh 13:16 : 16 Their border was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
  • Isa 5:17 : 17 Then the lambs will graze as in their pasture, And strangers will eat the ruins of the rich.
  • Isa 7:21 : 21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;
  • Isa 7:23-25 : 23 It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. 24 People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."
  • Jer 48:19 : 19 Inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and watch: ask him who flees, and her who escapes; say, What has been done?

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