Joshua 13:2
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2 This is the territory that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites,
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Joshua 13:11
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11 It included Gilead, the territory of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah, all of Mount Hermon, all of Bashan as far as Salecah,
Joel 3:4
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4 “What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done.
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1 Samuel 27:8
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8 David and his men spent their time raiding the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites—people who had lived near Shur, toward the land of Egypt, since ancient times.
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Judges 3:1
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The Nations Left in Canaan
3 These are the nations that the Lord left in the land to test those Israelites who had not experienced the wars of Canaan.
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2 Samuel 15:8
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8 For while your servant was at Geshur in Aram, I promised to sacrifice to the Lord in Hebron[a] if he would bring me back to Jerusalem.”
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- 15:8 As in some Greek manuscripts; Hebrew lacks in Hebron.
2 Samuel 13:37-38
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37 And David mourned many days for his son Amnon.
Absalom fled to his grandfather, Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. 38 He stayed there in Geshur for three years.
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2 Samuel 3:3
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3 The second was Daniel,[a] whose mother was Abigail, the widow of Nabal from Carmel.
The third was Absalom, whose mother was Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur.
Joshua 13:13
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13 But the Israelites failed to drive out the people of Geshur and Maacah, so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.
Joshua 12:5
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5 He ruled a territory stretching from Mount Hermon to Salecah in the north and to all of Bashan in the east, and westward to the borders of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah. This territory included the northern half of Gilead, as far as the boundary of King Sihon of Heshbon.
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Deuteronomy 11:23-24
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23 Then the Lord will drive out all the nations ahead of you, though they are much greater and stronger than you, and you will take over their land. 24 Wherever you set foot, that land will be yours. Your frontiers will stretch from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.[a]
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- 11:24 Hebrew to the western sea.
Exodus 23:29-31
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29 But I will not drive them out in a single year, because the land would become desolate and the wild animals would multiply and threaten you. 30 I will drive them out a little at a time until your population has increased enough to take possession of the land. 31 And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea,[a] and from the eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River.[b] I will hand over to you the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you.
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Genesis 26:1
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Isaac Deceives Abimelech
26 A severe famine now struck the land, as had happened before in Abraham’s time. So Isaac moved to Gerar, where Abimelech, king of the Philistines, lived.
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Genesis 10:14
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14 Pathrusites, Casluhites, and the Caphtorites, from whom the Philistines came.[a]
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