¹⁴ Jair,^(A) a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites;^(B) it was named^(C) after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.^[a])

⁸ Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites,^(A) the Girzites and the Amalekites.^(B) (From ancient times these peoples had lived in the land extending to Shur^(C) and Egypt.)

⁸ So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites^(A) the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.^{(B) 9} (Hermon is called Sirion^(C) by the Sidonians; the Amorites call it Senir.)^{(D) 10} We took all the towns on the plateau, and all Gilead, and all Bashan as far as Salekah^(E) and Edrei, towns of Og’s kingdom in Bashan.

²³ When all the army officers and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, Jaazaniah the son of the Maakathite, and their men.

⁸ While your servant was living at Geshur^(A) in Aram, I made this vow:^(B) ‘If the Lord takes me back to Jerusalem, I will worship the Lord in Hebron.^[a]’”

³⁷ Absalom fled and went to Talmai^(A) son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But King David mourned many days for his son.