am 2974-2977, bc 1030-1027, An, Ex, Is, 461-464, Geshur. This was not the Geshur lying between Philistia and Egypt (
Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel
expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
1 Samuel 27:8 And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the
Gezrites, and
the Amalekites: for those [
nations were] of old the inhabitants of the land,
as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.
), but another in Syria; probably the same as that beyond Jordan, whose inhabitants are joined with those of Maachathi,
Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of
Argob unto the coasts of
Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
Joshua 12:5 And reigned in mount
Hermon, and in
Salcah, and in all Bashan,
unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
2 Samuel 14:23 So Joab arose and went to
Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 14:32 And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur?
[it had been] good for me [
to have been] there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and
if there be [
any] iniquity in me, let him kill me.
2 Samuel 15:8 For
thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at
Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then
I will serve the LORD.
