Geshurites

The Geshurites (Hebrew: גְּשׁוּרִי‎ Gəšūrī) were a people who dwelt in the desert between Arabia and Philistia;^[1][2] in the latter citation the Geshurites are mentioned together with the Gezerites and Amalekites, each of whose areas were attacked by David and his men who "did not leave a man or woman alive",^[3] in order that there would be none to tell the Philistine king Achish, whose protection David was under, that David was raiding against them, rather than against Israelites as he claimed.^[4]

According to Richard Elliott Friedman,^[5] the mother of Tamar and Absalom was "a Geshurite princess".

1. ^ Joshua 13:2
2. ^ 1 Samuel 27:8
3. ^ 1 Samuel 27:9
4. ^ 1 Samuel 27:11
5. ^ Friedman, Richard Elliott, Who Wrote the Bible?

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