the sons of Israel, however, did not dispossess, the Geshurites or the Maacathites,—but Geshur and Maacath have remained in the midst of Israel until this day.
But if ye do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall it be. that they whom ye leave remaining of them will become pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and will harass you, concerning the land, wherein, ye are settling down.
Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob, as far as the boundary of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites,—and called them after his own name The Bashan of Havvoth-jair unto this day.
ruling also in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the boundary of the Geshurites, and the Maacathites,—and half Gilead, the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon:—
all the kingdom of Og, in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,—he, being left of the remnant of the giants; and Moses smote them and dispossessed them;
And David and his men went up, and made a raid against the Geshurites and the Gizrites and the Amalekites,—for, they, were the inhabitants of the land who had been from age-past times, as thou enterest Shur, even as far as the land of Egypt.
And it came to pass while Israel inhabited that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine; and Israel heard of it. And so the Sons of Israel came to be Twelve.
And, when the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious with David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth-rehob, and the Syrians of Zoba—twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah—a thousand men, and men of Tob—twelve thousand men.