Canaanite People Of David Research Paper

Absalom was the third son of David, whose mother was Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur ( 2 Samuel 3:2-3; 1 Chronicles 3:1-2). When Moses defeated Sihon the Amorite king, the Geshurites and the Maachathites were part of Amorite kingdom. However, the children of Israel did not expelled the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites, and where ruled by their own king (Joshua 13:10-13). The Canaanite people of Geshur who were the Geshurites dwelt in the region of the Egyptian Canaanites Philistines. The kingdom of Geshur was located in the east of Egypt, and northward to the boundary of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, Ekron, Avvites, Sidonians and the Amorites, towards Lebanon (Joshua 13:2-6). When …show more content…
The bible told us that Absalom had a fair sister (beautiful) whose name was Tamar, and Ammon her half-brother the first son of David loved her, and later raped her out of lust for her, and then hated her afterward. When Absalom heard about it, he planned against Ammon, and assassinated him (2 Samuel 3:2; 13:1-33). After the assassination of Amnon, Absalom fled, and went to his mother’s father, Talmai son of Ammihud, king of Geshur and was there three years (2 Samuel 13:8, 34, 37-38). At the time of Absalom’s birth, Saul was the king of Israel, and the Bible told us that there was long war between the house of Saul and the house of David, but David grew stronger, and the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker (2 Samuel 3:1-3). So, Maacah the third wife of David could not have been a Hebrew-Jewish woman, because the Bible told us that she was the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur, Talmai was never a king in Israel, during his reign over his Canaanite people, Saul, reigned as first king over the people of Israel, before David, who became the second king of Israel, after