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Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.

So Absalom fled, and went to Geshur , and was there three years.

So Joab arose and went to Geshur , and brought Absalom to Jerusalem .

This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

And Gilead , and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon , and all Bashan unto Salecah ;

The third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur : the fourth, Adonijah the son of Haggith:

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud , king of Geshur . And David mourned for his son every day.

And his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur ;

For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria , saying, If the Lord shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem , then I will serve the Lord.

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan –havoth–jair, unto this day.

And reigned in mount Hermon , and in Salecah , and in all Bashan , unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead , the border of Sihon king of Heshbon .

And he took Geshur , and Aram , with the towns of Jair , from them, with Kenath , and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead .

And David and his men went up, and invaded the Geshurites, and the Gezrites, and the Amalekites : for those nations were of old the inhabitants of the land, as thou goest to Shur , even unto the land of Egypt .

And Absalom answered Joab, Behold, I sent unto thee, saying, Come hither, that I may send thee to the king, to say, Wherefore am I come from Geshur ? it had been good for me to have been there still: now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there be any iniquity in me, let him kill me.

Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish ; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom ; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom : for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar , and out of the tribe of Asher , and out of the tribe of Naphtali , and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan , thirteen cities.

Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

Halhul , Beth–zur, and Gedor ,

Asshur came out of the mountains from the north, He came with ten thousands of his host, The multitude whereof stopped the torrents, And their horsemen covered the hills.

And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem , and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem , Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

And Penuel the father of Gedor , and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Beth–lehem.