Biblical places
Gezer
A city given to Solomon by an Egyptian pharaoh as his daughter's wedding dowry, which Solomon rebuilt as a store city alongside Megiddo and Hazor (1 Kings 9:15-17). Site of the important ancient Hebrew inscription known as the Gezer Calendar.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Tel Gezer
- 31.8592, 34.9192
There is no scholarly disagreement over the location, and the coordinates almost exactly match.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 10:33
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
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 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,
Joshua 12:12
The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
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 Chronicles 7:28
And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:
Joshua 16:3
And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.