Gezer

Identified as

Tel Gezer

Certainty

Widely agreed (94% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.859° N, 34.919° E

Gezer· Gob· Gazer

• גֹּב·Gobmeans “cistern; grasshopper”
• גֶּ֫זֶר·Gezer

1. Joshua 10:33גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.
2. Joshua 12:12גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   …the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
3. Joshua 16:3גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   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.
4. Joshua 16:10גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   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.
5. Joshua 21:21גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   …they were given Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the manslayer), Gezer,
6. Judges 1:29גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   Ephraim also failed to drive out the Canaanites living in Gezer; so the Canaanites continued to dwell among them in Gezer.
7. 2 Samuel 5:25גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
   So David did as the LORD had commanded him, and he struck down the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
8. 2 Samuel 21:18גֹּב · Gob
   Some time later at Gob, there was another battle with the Philistines. At that time Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Saph, a descendant of Rapha.
9. 2 Samuel 21:19גֹּב · Gob
   Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
10. 1 Kings 9:15גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    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.
11. 1 Kings 9:16גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
12. 1 Kings 9:17גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
13. 1 Chronicles 6:67גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    They were given Shechem (a city of refuge) with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer,
14. 1 Chronicles 7:28גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    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.
15. 1 Chronicles 14:16גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    So David did as God had commanded him, and they struck down the army of the Philistines all the way from Gibeon to Gezer.
16. 1 Chronicles 20:4גֶּ֫זֶר · Gezer
    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.