◄ Joshua 13:2 ►
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Good News Translation
all the territory of Philistia and Geshur,

New Revised Standard Version
This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites

New American Bible
This is the remaining land: all Geshur and all the districts of the Philistines

Douay-Rheims Bible
To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.

the land

Exodus 23:29-31 I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee. . . .

Deuteronomy 11:23,24 The Lord will destroy all these nations before your face, and you shall possess them, which are greater and stronger than you. . . .

Judges 3:1 These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:

borders

Genesis 10:14 And Phetrusim, and Chasluim; of whom came forth the Philistines, and the Capthorim.

Genesis 26:1 And when a famine came in the land, after that barrenness which had happened in the days of Abraham, Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Palestines, to Gerara.

Joel 3:4 But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.

Geshuri

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

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

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.

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. . . .

2 Samuel 15:8 For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.

Context
Lands Yet Unconquered
1Joshua was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to him: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot: 2To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.3From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Gethites, and the Accronites.…
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 13:11
And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,

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 13:1
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