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

^29 (A)Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; so the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

^10 (A)And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and have become forced laborers.

³ and went down westward to the boundary of the Japhletites, ^(A)as far as the boundary of Lower Beth Horon to ^(B)Gezer; and ^[a]it ended at the sea.

Philistine Giants Destroyed^(A)

⁴ Now it happened afterward ^(B)that war broke out at ^[a]Gezer with the Philistines, at which time ^(C)Sibbechai the Hushathite killed ^[b]Sippai, who was one of the sons of ^[c]the giant. And they were subdued.

^67 (A)And they gave them one of the cities of refuge, Shechem with its common-lands, in the mountains of Ephraim, also Gezer with its common-lands,

Solomon’s Additional Achievements^(A)

¹⁵ And this is the reason for ^(B)the labor force which King Solomon raised: to build the house of the Lord, his own house, ^[a]the ^(C)Millo, the wall of Jerusalem, ^(D)Hazor, ^(E)Megiddo, and ^(F)Gezer. ¹⁶ (Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burned it with fire, ^(G)had killed the Canaanites who dwelt in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.) ¹⁷ And Solomon built Gezer, Lower ^(H)Beth Horon,

²¹ For they gave them ^(A)Shechem with its common-land in the mountains of Ephraim (a city of refuge for the slayer), ^(B)Gezer with its common-land,

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