Geshurites

The Geshurites of the south are named twice. When Joshua was old, Yahweh listed the land that still remained to be possessed: “all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites” (Joshua 13:1–2), reaching “from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward” (Joshua 13:3). While David lived in the country of the Philistines (1 Samuel 27:7), he and his men “raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those were the inhabitants of the land who were of old, on the way to Shur, even to the land of Egypt” (1 Samuel 27:8).

Their home on the south-west border sets them apart from Geshur “in Syria” (2 Samuel 15:8), the small kingdom east of the Jordan beside Bashan, whose king Talmai was Absalom's grandfather (Joshua 13:11–13; 2 Samuel 3:3).