Bible Location
Meaning: heath; tamarisk · 9 cross references · Modern-day map available
This Aroer entry refers to the town by the Arnon on the southern edge of the transjordanian lands, not the smaller duplicate Aroer pages elsewhere in the dataset. It is important because it marked a major boundary and appeared in the contested history of the eastern territories. First appears in Deut 2:36.1
AI summary: Aroer is one of those eastern towns whose significance is tied strongly to position. Placed near the Arnon, it helps define the southern reach of the Amorite and later Israelite territory east of the Jordan. Because boundaries, conquests, and contested control mattered so much in the transjordan, Aroer appears repeatedly in those contexts. The cross references present this Aroer as a frontier town and boundary marker on the eastern side of Israel's world.1
A town on the north bank of the Arnon (Deut. 4:48; Judg. 11:26; 2 Kings 10:33), the southern boundary of the kingdom of Sihon (Josh. 12:2). It is now called Arair, 13 miles west of the Dead Sea. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.