This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Parallel translations
- WEB “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
- BSB This is the land that remains: All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites,
- NKJV This is the land that yet remains: all the territory of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites,
- NASB This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;
- NLT This is the territory that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites,
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Quick answer
The Lord specifies the unconquered territory still remaining, beginning with the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites.
Overview
God names the land yet to be taken, much of it along the southern coast and borders. The Philistines especially would prove a persistent thorn through the days of the Judges and into David's reign. This honest acknowledgment of unfinished business reminds believers that the inheritance is sure in God's promise yet still to be claimed by faith.
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Cross-references · 13
- Josh 13:11And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
- 1 Sam 27:8And 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.
- Judg 3:1Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to prove Israel by them, even as many of Israel as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Joel 3:4Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;
- 2 Sam 15:8For thy servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall bring me again indeed to Jerusalem, then I will serve the LORD.
- Josh 13:13Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
- 2 Sam 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;
- Exod 23:29–31I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
- Deut 11:23–24Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
- Gen 26:1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- Josh 12:5And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Gen 10:14And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
- 2 Sam 13:37–38But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
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