This is the territory that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and the Geshurites,
Parallel translations
- WEB “This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
- KJV This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
- 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;
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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 Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
- 1 Sam 27:8David and his men went up and 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.
- Judg 3:1Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to test Israel by them, even as many as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Joel 3:4“Yes, and what are you to me, Tyre, and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
- 2 Sam 15:8For your servant vowed a vow while I stayed at Geshur in Syria, saying, ‘If Yahweh shall indeed bring me again to Jerusalem, then I will serve Yahweh.’”
- Josh 13:13Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to 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 you in one year, lest the land become desolate, and the animals of the field multiply against you.
- Deut 11:23–24then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
- Gen 26:1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
- Josh 12:5and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
- Gen 10:14Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- 2 Sam 13:37–38But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
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