Jeremiah 48:19
Good News Translation
You that live in Aroer, stand by the road and wait; ask those who are running away, find out from them what has happened.

New Revised Standard Version
Stand by the road and watch, you inhabitant of Aroer! Ask the man fleeing and the woman escaping; say, “What has happened?”

Contemporary English Version
You people of Aroer, go wait beside the road, and when refugees run by, ask them, "What happened?"

New American Bible
Stand along the road, keep watch, enthroned Aroer; Ask the fleeing man, the escaping woman: ask them what has happened.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?

inhabitant [heb] inhabitress

Numbers 32:34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

2 Samuel 24:5 And when they had passed the Jordan, they came to Aroer to the right side of the city, which is in the vale of Gad.

1 Chronicles 5:8 And Bala the son of Azaz, the son of Samma, the son of Joel, dwelt in Aroer as far as Nebo, and Beelmeon.

ask

1 Samuel 4:13,14,16 And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way, watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the man was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out. . . .

2 Samuel 1:3,4 And David said to him: From whence comest thou? And he said to him: I am fled out of the camp of Israel. . . .

2 Samuel 18:24-32 And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman that was on the top of the gate upon the wall, lifting up his eyes, saw a man running alone. . . .

Context
The Judgment on Moab
18Come down from thy glory, and sit in thirst, O dwelling of the daughter of Dibon: because the spoiler of Moab is come up to thee, he hath destroyed thy bulwarks. 19Stand in the way, and look out, O habitation of Aroer: inquire of him that fleeth: and say to him that hath escaped: What is done?20Moab is confounded, because he is overthrown: howl ye, and cry, tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is wasted.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 2:36
From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

Joshua 12:2
Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.

1 Samuel 4:13
And when he was come, Heli sat upon a stool over against the way, watching. For his heart was fearful for the ark of God. And when the man was come into the city, he told it: and all the city cried out.

1 Samuel 4:14
And Heli heard the noise of the cry, and he said: What meaneth the noise of this uproar? But he made haste, and came, and told Heli.

Jeremiah 48:18
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