◄ Joshua 13:13 ►
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Good News Translation
However, the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur and Maacah; they still live in Israel.

New Revised Standard Version
Yet the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites; but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.

Contemporary English Version
However, the Israelites did not force the people of Geshur and Maacah to leave, and they still live there among the Israelites.

New American Bible
But the Israelites did not dispossess the Geshurites and Maacathites, so that Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.

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Joshua 13:11 And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,

Joshua 23:12,13 But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: . . .

Numbers 33:55 But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation.

Judges 2:1-3 And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever: . . .

2 Samuel 3:3 And his second Cheleab of Abigail the wife of Nabal of Carmel: and the third Absalom the son of Maacha the daughter of Tholmai king of Gessur:

2 Samuel 13:37,38 But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day. . . .

Context
The Inheritance East of the Jordan
…12All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and destroyed them. 13And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.14But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of thee Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair the son of Manasses possessed all the country of Argob unto the borders of Gessuri, and Machati. And he called Basan by his own name, Havoth Jair, that is to say, the towns of Jair, until this present day.

Joshua 12:5
Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon.

Joshua 13:12
All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and destroyed them.

Joshua 13:14
But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of thee Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.

1 Samuel 27:8
And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.

Joshua 13:12
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