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Places of the Bible

Aroer

One of the towns built by the tribe of Gad · City · Guess (near Rabbah)

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Aroer, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.

  • Dividing the land · 1444 BC · 1 verse
  • Deliverance by Jephthah · 1151 BC · 1 verse
  • Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
  • Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 1 verse

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

One of the towns built by the tribe of Gad (Num. 32:34) “before Rabbah” (Josh. 13:25), the Ammonite capital. It was famous in the history of Jephthah (Judg. 11:33) and of David (2 Sam. 24:5). (Comp. Isa. 17:2; 2 Kings 15:29.)

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 6 verses

Numbers
32:34
Joshua
13:25
Judges
11:33
2 Samuel
24:5
1 Chronicles
5:8
Isaiah
17:2

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.