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Gezer

14 verses · 2 known names

Also known as: Gazer

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Verses Mentioning Gezer

  1. Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.

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

  3. and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and ended at the sea.

  4. They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

  5. They gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

  6. Ephraim didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

  7. David did so, as the LORD commanded him, and struck the Philistines from Geba until you come to Gezer.

  8. This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the LORD’s house, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

  9. Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a portion to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

  10. Solomon built Gezer, and Beth Horon the lower,

  11. They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,

  12. Their possessions and habitations were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;

  13. David did as God commanded him: and they struck the army of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

  14. After this, there arose war at Gezer with the Philistines: then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.