And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he had taken when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub.

(Geshur and Syria took from them the towns of Jair, with Kenath and its daughter- villages; sixty cities.) All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

Nevertheless the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

his second, Chileab, by Abigail the widowed wife of Nabal the Carmelite; the third, Absalom the son of Maacah, the daughter of Talmai, king of Geshur;

And when the sons of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, the sons of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob and the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand foot soldiers; and from the king of Maacah one thousand men, and from Ish-Tob twelve thousand men.

But Absalom had fled and went to Talmai the son of Ammihud, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured its small towns, and called them Havoth-jair.