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Geshurites

Disambiguation

The source enumerates 2 distinct subjects under Geshurites. Jump to one below, or read in order.

  1. 1.The inhabitants of Geshur.
  2. 2.Another aboriginal people of Palestine who inhabited the south-west border of the land.

  1. Geshurites (1)

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    The inhabitants of Geshur. They maintained friendly relations with the Israelites on the east of Jordan (Josh. 12:5; 13:11, 13).

  2. Geshurites (2)

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    Another aboriginal people of Palestine who inhabited the south-west border of the land. Geshuri in Josh. 13:2 should be “the Geshurite,” not the Geshurites mentioned in ver. 11, 13, but the tribe mentioned in 1 Sam. 27:8.

In the Bible

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Verses where Geshurites is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Samuel 27:8

    Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.

  • Joshua 12:5

    He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

  • Joshua 13:2

    This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,

  • Joshua 13:11

    also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—

  • Joshua 13:13

    but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.

Scripture on Geshurites

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Entries that reference Geshurites

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Geshurites references

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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)

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