Geshur, Geshurites
Geshur, Geshurites
GESHUR, GESHURITES.A small Araman tribe, whose territory, together with that of Maacah (wh. see), formed the W. border of Bashan (Deu 3:14, Jos 12:6; Jos 13:11). The Geshurites were not expelled by the half-tribe of Manasseh, to whom their land had been allotted (Jos 13:13), and were still ruled by an independent king in the reign of David, who married the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur (2Sa 3:3). After the murder of his half-brother Amnon, Absalom took refuge with his maternal grandfather in Geshur of Aram (2Sa 13:37; 2Sa 15:8). Geshur and Maacah were probably situated in the modern Jauln, if they are not to be identified with it. In 1Ch 2:23 Geshur and Aram are said to have taken the tent-villages of Jair from the Israelites. On the strength of Jos 13:2 and 1Sa 27:8, it has been maintained that there was another tribe of this name in the neighbourhood of the Philistines; but the evidence in support of this view is very precarious.