The mention of the land where the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites lived highlights these people as ancient enemies of Israel who should've been exterminated during the conquest of the Promised Land (see Deuteronomy 20:16–17).
The mention of the land where the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites lived highlights these people as ancient enemies of Israel who should've been exterminated during the conquest of the Promised Land (see Deuteronomy 20:16–17).
8 Now David and his men went up and made raids against the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites, for these were the inhabitants of the land from of old, as far as Shur, to the land of Egypt.