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Gezer
Town or city mentioned in 14 verses of the Bible, most often in Joshua.
Where it appears
Joshua (5), 1 Chronicles (4), 1 Kings (3), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1)
Key verses
- Joshua 10:33 first mention — Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
- Joshua 12:12 — The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
- Joshua 16:3 — And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
- Joshua 16:10 — And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
- Joshua 21:21 — For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
- Judges 1:29 — Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.
- 1 Kings 9:15 — And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 9:16 — For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
- 1 Kings 9:17 — And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth-horon the nether,
- 1 Chronicles 6:67 — And they gave unto them, of the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; they gave also Gezer with her suburbs,
- 1 Chronicles 14:16 — David therefore did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gazer.
- 1 Chronicles 20:4 — And it came to pass after this, that there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines; at which time Sibbechai the Hushathite slew Sippai, that was of the children of the giant: and they were subdued.
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