II. GESHUR, in Syria, had its peculiar, independant King, whose daughter David married, and had Absalom by her. Absalom, after the murder of his brother Amnon, retired to the King of Geshur, his Grandfather by the Mother’s side. Notwithstanding there is room to question, whether this King, and this land of Geshur be not different from that beyond the river Jordan, since it is said in the Chronicles, that Jair took Geshur and Aram (or Geshur of Syria) and the avoth or villages of Jair.
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