The cities of Aroer are deserted; they will be for flocks, … Maps Created using Biblemapper 3.0 Additional data from OpenBible.info. Bible > Atlas > Damascus Damascus Atlas. This does not negate Isaiah’s prophecy, which referred to the destruction of Damascus as the powerful capital of Syria during the Syro-Ephraimite War.

An oracle concerning Damascus.
Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. Of course, the Damascus of the Bible is still recognizable today as the well-known capital city of Syria. Damascus. Genesis 14:15 He divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and struck them, and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus. This is the north side.

It is now the largest city in Asiatic Turkey. Christianity has again found a firm footing within its walls. Appropriately enough, it even has the famous distinction of being considered the world's oldest continuously inhabited city, inhabited from prehistoric times.

Damascus and surrounding area. Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary. Smith's Bible Dictionary. These dictionary topics are from M.G.

A Prophecy Against Damascus - A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

It is situated 130 miles northeast of Jerusalem, in a plain of vast size and of extreme fertility, which lies east of the great chain of Anti-Libanus, on the edge of the desert. "The boundary shall extend from the sea to Hazar-enan at the border of Damascus, and on the north toward the north is the border of Hamath. In A.D. 634 Damascus was conquered by the growing Mohammedan power.

The cities of Aroer will be deserted and left to flocks, which will lie down, with no one to make them afraid. a sack full of blood; the similitude of burning.

Occurrences. Damascus. The same is true of the comment on the passage found in The Apologetics Study Bible: “Damascus continued to be a city in the OT era (Ezk 27:18), the NT (Ac 9:19-27), and today. Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
one of the most ancient and most important of the cities of Syria. Behold, Damascus will cease to be a city and will become a heap of ruins. In A.D. 1516 it fell under the dominion of the Turks, its present rulers.