Gezer

How Nave’s arranged it

• Also called GAZER, GAZARA, GAZERA, and GOB
• A Canaanitish royal city
• King of, defeats JoshuaJoshua 10:33Joshua 12:12
• Canaanites not all expelled from, but made to pay tribute (taxes)Joshua 16:10Judges 1:29
• Allotted to the half-tribe of EphraimJoshua 16:3Joshua 16:101 Chronicles 7:28
• Assigned to LevitesJoshua 21:21
• Battle with Philistines at1 Chronicles 20:42 Samuel 21:18
• Struck by David1 Samuel 27:8
• Fortified by Solomon1 Kings 9:15–171 Kings 12:23

The passages, in Bible order (12)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 12 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 10:33

   At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 10:331 voice

   “Gezer lies on the southern border of the tribe of Ephraim Jos 16:3. It was considerably to the northward of Joshua’s present line of operations, and does not appear to have been captured at this time. He contented himself for the present with repulsing the attack made upon him, killed Horam (compare Jos 12:12), inflicting a severe defeat upon his people, and then continued to pursue his conquests over the confederated kings and their allies in south Canaan.

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2. Joshua 12:12

   the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

   ›Commentary on Joshua 12:121 voice

   “The king of Eglon, one,.... The last of the five kings, and his name was Debir, Jos 10:3, the king of Gezer, one; who came up to help Lachish, and his name was Horam, Jos 10:33.

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3. Joshua 16:3

   Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 16:31 voice

   “Beth-horon the nether - This city was about twelve miles from Jerusalem, on the side of Nicopolis, formerly Emmaus. - Calmet. See the note on Jos 10:10.

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4. Joshua 16:10

   But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 16:101 voice

   “The Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer - It appears that the Canaanites were not expelled from this city till the days of Solomon, when it was taken by the king of Egypt his father-in-law, who made it a present to his daughter, Solomon’s queen. See 1Ki 9:16. And see the note on Jos 10:33. The Ephraimites, however, had so far succeeded in subjecting these people as to oblige them to pay tribute, though they could not, or at least did not, totally expel them.

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5. Joshua 21:21

   From the tribe of Ephraim they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,

   ›Commentary on Joshua 21:211 voice

   “For they gave them Shechem, with her suburbs, in Mount Ephraim,.... Of which see Jos 20:7, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; which being on a mountain, was the more conspicuous, and the fitter for this purpose, as was Hebron in the hill country of Judea, Jos 21:11; this is the second; city of refuge mentioned: and Gezer with her suburbs: a place from whence the Canaanites were not expelled; See Gill on Jos 16:10.

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6. Judges 1:29

   Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.

   ›Commentary on Judges 1:291 voice

   “Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer,.... Not so much as made them tributaries, but made a covenant with them, it is probable, contrary to the express will of God: but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them; the Ephraimites agreeing to it, and here they dwelt to the times of Solomon; See Gill on Jos 16:10; where indeed they are said to be under tribute; but that seems to respect some later time, and not when they were first admitted to dwell among them, since no mention is made of it here.

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7. 1 Samuel 27:8

   Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 27:81 voice

   “The Geshurites bordered upon the Philistines, and lived in the mountainous district which terminates the desert on the northeast (marginal reference). They were a different tribe, or, at least, a different branch of it, from the Geshurites who lived on the northeast border of Bashan, and were Arameans 2Sa 15:8. The Gezrites, or Gerzites, may be connected with those who gave their name to Mount Gerizim.

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8. 2 Samuel 21:18

   Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, one of the descendants of Rapha.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 21:181 voice

   “A battle - at Gob - Instead of Gob, several editions, and about forty of Kennicott’s and De Rossi’s MSS., have Nob; but Gezer is the name in the parallel place, 1Ch 20:4.

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9. 1 Kings 9:15–17

   This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 9:15–171 voice

   “Levy - See the marginal reference note. Millo - See 2Sa 5:9 note. The Septuagint commonly render the word ἡ ἄκρα hē akra, “the citadel,” and it may possibly have been the fortress on Mount Zion connected with the Maccabean struggles (1 Macc. 4:41; 13:49-52). Its exact site has not been determined. And the wall of Jerusalem - David’s fortification 2Sa 5:9; 1Ch 11:8 had been hasty, and had now - fifty years later - fallen into decay. Solomon therefore had to “repair the breaches of the city of David” 1Ki 11:

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10. 1 Kings 12:23

    “Tell Rehoboam son of Solomon king of Judah, all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the rest of the people

    ›Commentary on 1 Kings 12:232 voices

    “Rehoboam determined to assert his authority by leading a large force into the disaffected provinces. But the revolt of the ten tribes was completed when the prophet Shemaiah ordered, in the Lord's name, an abandonment of any hostile measures against the revolutionists. The army, overawed by the divine prohibition, dispersed, and the king was obliged to submit.

    “Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon king of Judah,.... He is called king before, but of what tribe or tribes is not expressly said, only it is implied in 1Ki 12:17 and he is only acknowledged king of Judah by the Lord himself: and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin; which made but one house, as before but one tribe, 1Ki 11:36. and to the remnant of the people; of the other tribes that might dwell among them at Jerusalem, and especially Simeon, whose inheritance was within the tribe of Judah, Jos 19:1. saying: as follows.

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11. 1 Chronicles 7:28

    Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.

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12. 1 Chronicles 20:4

    Some time later, war broke out with the Philistines at Gezer. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, a descendant of the Rephaim, and the Philistines were subdued.

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