Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

Bible References

When

Mark 5:1
And they came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gadarenes.
Luke 8:26
And they arrived in the country of the Gadarenes, which is over against Galilee.
Acts 10:38
Jesus who was of Nazareth: how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power; who went through all quarters doing good, and healing all that were under the power of the devil, because God was with him.

Gergesenes

Genesis 10:16
and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Genesis 15:21
and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Deuteronomy 7:1
When Jehovah thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou,

Coming

Mark 5:2
And immediately on his going out of the ship there met him out of the tombs a man possessed by an unclean spirit,
Luke 8:27
And as he got out of the ship on the land, a certain man out of the city met him, who had demons a long time, and put on no clothes, and did not abide in a house, but in the tombs.

So

Judges 5:6
"In the days of Shamgar, son of Anath, in the days of Ja'el, caravans ceased and travelers kept to the byways.