These are the sons of Shem: elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram.
And an angel of the Lord came to her by a fountain of water in the waste land, by the fountain on the way to Shur.
And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.
And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.
And their country was from Havilah to Shur which is east of Egypt: they took their place to the east of all their brothers.
Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.
But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.
But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.
Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)
But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.
And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.
Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon.
This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day.
And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.
And David and his men went up and made attacks on the Geshurites and the Girzites and the Amalekites; for these were the people who were living in the land from Telam on the way to Shur, as far as Egypt.
And the second, Chileab, whose mother was Abigail, the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom, son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;
So Absalom went in flight and came to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur, where he was for three years.
So Joab got up and went to Geshur and came back again to Jerusalem with Absalom.
And Absalom's answer was, See, I sent to you saying, Come here, so that I may send you to the king to say, Why have I come back from Geshur? it would be better for me to be there still: let me now see the king's face, and if there is any sin in me, let him put me to death.
For while I was living in Geshur in Aram, your servant made an oath, saying, If ever the Lord lets me come back to Jerusalem, I will give him worship in Hebron.
The sons of Shem: elam and Asshur and Arpachshad and Lud and Aram and Uz and Hul and Gether and Meshech.
And Geshur and Aram took the tent-towns of Jair from them, with Kenath and the small places round it, even sixty towns. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.
And after the death of Hezron, caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.
And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.
And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.
The third Absalom, the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur; the fourth Adonijah, the son of Haggith;
The Lord who made you, forming you in your mother's body, the Lord, your helper, says, Have no fear, O Jacob my servant, and you, Jeshurun, whom I have taken for myself.
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:
There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:
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