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.<\/p>\n
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 … Continue reading “Geshur, Geshurites”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}