For your servant vowed a vow while I abode at Geshur in Syria, saying, If the LORD shall indeed bring me again to Yerushalayim, then I will serve the LORD.
and his second, Chileab, of Avigayil the wife of Naval the Karmelite; and the third, Avshalom the son of Ma`akhah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
*Yes, and what are you to me, Tzor, and Tzidon, and all the regions of Peleshet? Will you repay me? And if you repay me, I will swiftly and speedily return your repayment on your own head.
Woe to the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Kereti! The word of the LORD is against you, Kena`an, the land of the Pelishtim. I will destroy you, that there will be no inhabitant.
Ya'ir the son of Menasheh took all the region of Argov, to the border of the Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Chavvot-Ya'ir, to this day.)
and ruled in Mount Chermon, and in Salkhah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and half Gil`ad, the border of Sichon king of Cheshbon.
Nevertheless the children of Yisra'el didn't drive out the Geshuri, nor the Ma`akhati: but Geshur and Ma`akhat dwell in the midst of Yisra'el to this day.
David and his men went up, and made a raid on the Geshuri, and the Gizri, and the `Amaleki; for those [nations] were the inhabitants of the land, who were of old, as you go to Shur, even to the land of Egypt.