AROER
AROER a city of the Amorites on the north side of the valley of the Arnon (
Wady-el-Môjib) (
Deut. 2.36, 3.12), occupied by the tribe of Gad (
Numb. 32.34). Eusebius says that the site of the city existed in his day on the top of a hill (Onomast. s. v.). And Burckhardt was shown, on the top of the precipice which forms the northern brink of the
Wady-el-Môjib, the ruins of
Araayr, which he concludes to be the Aroer of the Scriptures. (
Travels, p. 372.)
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