1 Samuel 27:8

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Summary

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.

The geshurites

1 Chronicles 2:23

As thou goest

1 Samuel 15:7

1 Samuel 30:1

Exodus 17:14

Bible References

The geshurites

This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;

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

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

For your servant vowed a vow while I was living at Geshur in Aram, saying, ‘If the Lord shall indeed bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord.’”

But Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

As thou goest

So Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, which is east of Egypt.

Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”