Joshua 13:2
“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
World English Bible
In The King James Version
This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 26:1There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Deuteronomy 11:23then the LORD will drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
Joshua 13:11and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
Judges 3:1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
2 Samuel 3:3and 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;
2 Samuel 15:8For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.’”
Matthew Henry on Joshua 13:2-7
The Distribution of Canaan. ( b. c. 1445.) 1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri, 3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and… Read the whole commentary →