1 Samuel 27:8 BSB — MannaFest

1 Samuel 27:8

Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

BSB

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ASV

And David and his men went up, and made a raid upon the Geshurites, and the Girzites, and the Amalekites; for those nations were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as thou goest to Shur, even unto the land of Egypt.

KJV

And 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.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The Geshurites bordered upon the Philistines, and lived in the mountainous district which terminates the desert on the northeast (marginal reference). They were a different tribe, or, at least, a different branch of it, from the Geshurites who lived on the northeast border of Bashan, and were Arameans 2Sa 15:8. The Gezrites, or Gerzites, may be connected with those who gave their name to Mount Gerizim.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיַּ֤עַל	vai.Ya.'al	and he went up	H5927 →
דָּוִד֙	da.Vid	David	H1732 →
וַֽאֲנָשָׁ֔יו	va.'a.na.Shav	and men his	H582 →
וַֽיִּפְשְׁט֛וּ	vai.yif.she.Tu	and they made raids	H6584 →
אֶל־	'el-	against	H413 →
הַגְּשׁוּרִ֥י	ha.ge.shu.Ri	the Geshurite[s]	H1651 →
וְהַגִּזְרִ֖י	ve.ha.gir.zi	and the Gizrite[s]	H1511 →
וְהָעֲמָלֵקִ֑י	ve.ha.'a.mal.Ki	and the Amalekite[s]	H6003 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
הֵ֜נָּה	He.nah	they	H2007 →
יֹשְׁב֤וֹת	yo.she.Vot	[were] dwelling	H3427 →
הָאָ֙רֶץ֙	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
מֵֽעוֹלָ֔ם	me.'o.Lam	[is] from antiquity	H5769 →
בּוֹאֲךָ֥	bo.'a.Kha	coming you	H935 →
שׁ֖וּרָה	Shu.rah	Shur towards	H7793 →
וְעַד־	ve.'ad-	and to	H5704 →
אֶ֥רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
מִצְרָֽיִם׃	mitz.Ra.yim	Egypt	H4714 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Joshua 16:10
But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
leads to
- 1 Kings 9:16
  Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Judges 1:29
  Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
- Deuteronomy 7:1–2
  When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations…
- Joshua 17:13
  However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.
- 1 Kings 9:21
  their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Through
Joshua 13:2
This is the land that remains:
leads to
- Joshua 13:11
  also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 2 Samuel 3:3
  his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Judges 1:29
Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
leads to
- Joshua 16:10
  But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

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06About 1 Samuel

Where the connections lead

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