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Geshur (gç'shur), bridge. A small district of Syria, east of the Jordan and northeast of Bashan; allotted to Manasseh, Deuteronomy 3:14; 2 Samuel 15:8; 1 Chronicles 2:23; Joshua 13:13; David married a daughter of its king, 2 Samuel 3:3; Absalom fled thither after the murder of Amnon, 2 Samuel 13:37. Now known as "the Lejah," and still the refuge of criminals and outlaws.
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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Geshur'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/g/geshur.html. 1893.
Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Geshur'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/rpd/g/geshur.html. 1893.
