³³ Then Horam king of ^(A)Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.

^29 (A)And Ephraim did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites lived in Gezer among them.

¹⁰ However, ^(A)they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites have lived in the midst of Ephraim to this day but have been made ^(B)to do forced labor.

³ Then it goes down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower ^(A)Beth-horon, then to ^(B)Gezer, and it ends at the sea.

Philistine Giants Killed

^4 (A)And after this there arose war with the Philistines at Gezer. Then Sibbecai the Hushathite struck down Sippai, who was one of the descendants of the giants, and the Philistines were subdued.

⁶⁷ They were given the cities of refuge: Shechem with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

¹⁵ And this is the account of ^(A)the forced labor that King Solomon drafted to build the house of the Lord and his own house and ^(B)the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and ^(C)Hazor and ^(D)Megiddo and Gezer ¹⁶ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and had killed ^(E)the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as dowry to ^(F)his daughter, Solomon's wife; ¹⁷ so Solomon rebuilt Gezer) and ^(G)Lower Beth-horon

²¹ To them were given Shechem, ^(A)the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands in the hill country of Ephraim, Gezer with its pasturelands,

^12 (A)the king of Eglon, one; ^(B)the king of Gezer, one;