THEOSISJoshua 13:2Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.
זֹ֥את הָאָ֖רֶץ הַנִּשְׁאָ֑רֶת כָּל־גְּלִיל֥וֹת הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֖ים וְכָל־הַגְּשׁוּרִֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Josh 13:11And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,
- Joel 3:4But what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coast of the Philistines? will you revenge yourselves on me? and if you revenge yourselves on me, I will very soon return you a recompense upon your own head.
- 1 Sam 27:8And David and his men went up, and pillaged Gessuri, and Gerzi, and the Amalecites: for these were of old the inhabitants of the countries, as men go to Sur, even to the land of Egypt.
- Judg 3:1These are the nations which the Lord left, that by them he might instruct Israel, and all that had not known the wars of the Chanaanites:
- 2 Sam 15:8For thy servant made a vow, when he was in Gessur of Syria, saying: If the Lord shall bring me again into Jerusalem, I will offer sacrifice to the Lord.
- Ex 23:29I will not cast them out from thy face in one year; lest the land be brought into a wilderness, and the beasts multiply against thee.
- Ex 23:31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you.
- 2 Sam 13:37But Absalom fled, and went to Tholomai the son of Ammiud the king of Gessur. And David mourned for his son every day.