The cities of Aroer [are] forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make [them] afraid.
Ver. 2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken,] i.e., The country beyond Jordan Deu 2:36 is desolated and depopulated - the Gadites and the Reubenites being also, together with the Syrians, carried captive by Tiglathpileser. 1Ch 5:26