O inhabitant of Aroer, stand by the way, and espy; ask him that fleeth, and her that escapeth, and say, What is done?
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Gill's Exposition
Moab is confounded, for it is broken down,.... This is the answer returned, by those that had escaped and were fleeing, to those who inquired of them; who report that the whole country of Moab was in…
Barnes' Notes
Aroer - On the Arnon, due south of Dibon. If Dibon falls, the turn of Aroer will come next, and therefore its inhabitants are to be on the look out, asking for news.
The destruction is here further prophesied of very largely and with a great copiousness and variety of expression, and very pathetically and in moving language, designed not only to awaken them by a…
Cambridge Bible
Aroer now - Ara-ir, not to be confounded with the Aroer of Num 32:34, a Gadite city, or with an Aroer belonging to Judah (1Sa 30:28). The Aroer of the text was a few miles S.W. of Dibon. Mesha records…
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