Post by Lee on May 28, 2014 2:26:30 GMT
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."
GESHUR (Ġēʹ shûr) Place-name, perhaps meaning “bridge.” Small Aramean city-state between Bashan and Hermon. It served as a buffer between Israel and Aram. David married Maacah, daughter of the king of Geshur, who became mother of Absalom (2 Sam. 3:3), which caused the two lands to be on friendly terms. Absalom later retreated to his mother’s homeland (2 Sam. 13:37–38). Nowhere do David’s battle reports mention Geshur (2 Sam. 8; 10). Many scholars think Josh. 13:2 and 1 Sam. 27:8 refer to a group of southern Philistine cities about which nothing else is known.
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. 2003 .
GESHUR (Ġēʹ shûr) Place-name, perhaps meaning “bridge.” Small Aramean city-state between Bashan and Hermon. It served as a buffer between Israel and Aram. David married Maacah, daughter of the king of Geshur, who became mother of Absalom (2 Sam. 3:3), which caused the two lands to be on friendly terms. Absalom later retreated to his mother’s homeland (2 Sam. 13:37–38). Nowhere do David’s battle reports mention Geshur (2 Sam. 8; 10). Many scholars think Josh. 13:2 and 1 Sam. 27:8 refer to a group of southern Philistine cities about which nothing else is known.
Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. 2003 .