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Ancient Canaanite city and its inhabitants. It was taken by Joshua, and allotted to Ephraim, and afterwards to the Kohathites, 1 Chr. 6: 67; 1 Chr. 7: 28; but the ancient inhabitants held possession. It was taken and burnt by Pharaoh as a Canaanitish city, and the site given to his daughter whom Solomon had married. Solomon rebuilt the city. Joshua 10: 33; Joshua 12: 12; Joshua 16: 3, 10; Joshua 21: 21;
Judges 1: 29; 1 Sam. 27: 8; 1 Kings 9: 15-17. It is called GAZER in
2 Sam. 5: 25; 1 Chr. 14: 16. Compare 1 Chr. 20: 4 with 2 Sam. 21: 18, 19, GEZER in the former passage refers to GOB in the latter.
Gezer is identified with ruins at Tell Jezar, .