The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, which will lie down, and none will make them afraid.
I will make Rabbah a pasture for camels and Ammon a fold for flocks. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
And the dead bodies of this people will be food for the birds of the air, and for the beasts of the earth, and none will frighten them away.
And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows for shepherds and folds for flocks.
but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken.
From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. The Lord our God gave all into our hands.
And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
Stand by the way and watch, O inhabitant of Aroer! Ask him who flees and her who escapes; say, ‘What has happened?’
“When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities.
In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns. With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns. And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep,
Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
So their territory was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;
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