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The Definition of the word Geshurites

Geshurites

(1.) The inhabitants of Geshur. They maintained friendly relations with the Israelites on the east of Jordan (Josh. 12:5; "13:11, 13)." "(2.) Another aboriginal people of Palestine who inhabited the south-west border of the land. Geshuri in Josh. 13:2 should be "the Geshurite, not the Geshurites mentioned in ver. 11, 13," but the tribe mentioned in 1 Sam. 27:8.


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