Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Bible References

The geshurites

Joshua 13:2
This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites;
2 Samuel 13:37
But Absalom fled and went to [his mother’s father] Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.
2 Samuel 14:23
So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.
2 Samuel 15:8
For your servant made a vow while I lived at Geshur in Aram (Syria), ‘If the Lord will in fact bring me back to Jerusalem, then I will serve the Lord [by offering a sacrifice of thanksgiving].’”
1 Chronicles 2:23
But Geshur and Aram took from them Havvoth-jair, with Kenath and its villages, sixty towns in all. All these were the sons (descendants) of Machir, the father of Gilead.

As thou goest

1 Samuel 15:7
Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
1 Samuel 30:1
Now it happened when David and his men came [home] to Ziklag on the third day, [they found] that the Amalekites had made a raid on the Negev (the South country) and on Ziklag, and had overthrown Ziklag and burned it with fire;
Exodus 17:14
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in the book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly wipe out the memory of Amalek [and his people] from under heaven.”