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Tyndale Open Study Notes on 1 Samuel 27:8

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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27:8 Geshurites . . . Girzites . . . Amalekites: These groups, who lived on the edges of the southern desert, had been troublesome to both Philistines and Israelites. (On the Amalekites, see 14:48; ch 15; on the Geshurites, see Josh 13:2, 13; 2 Sam 3:3.) • Shur was somewhere east of Egypt (1 Sam 15:7; Gen 16:7; 20:1; 25:18).
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