Geshur

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

32.767° N, 35.700° E

Geshur, Geshurites

• גְּשׁוּר·Geshur
• גְּשׁוּרִי·Geshur

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Joshua 13:2
   This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,
4. Joshua 13:11
   …also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
5. 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.
6. 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.)
7. 2 Samuel 3:3
   …his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
8. 2 Samuel 13:37
   Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
9. 2 Samuel 13:38
   After Absalom had fled and gone to Geshur, he stayed there three years.
10. 2 Samuel 14:23
    So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
11. 2 Samuel 14:32
    “Look,” said Absalom, “I sent for you and said, ‘Come here. I want to send you to the king to ask: Why have I come back from Geshur? It would be better for me if I were still there.’ So now, let me see the king’s face, and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.”
12. 2 Samuel 15:8
    For your servant made a vow while dwelling in Geshur of Aram, saying: ‘If indeed the LORD brings me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the LORD in Hebron.’”
13. 1 Chronicles 2:23
    But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.
14. 1 Chronicles 3:2
    …the third was Absalom the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur; the fourth was Adonijah the son of Haggith;