-Also called GAZER, GAZARA, GAZERA, and GOB -A Canaanitish royal city -King of, defeats Joshua Joshua 10:33; 12:12 -Canaanites not all expelled from, but made to pay tribute (taxes) Joshua 16:10; Judges 1:29 -Allotted to the half-tribe of Ephraim Joshua 16:3, 10; I Chronicles 7:28 -Assigned to Levites Joshua 21:21 -Battle with Philistines at I Chronicles 20:4; II Samuel 21:18 -Struck by David I Samuel 27:8 -Fortified by Solomon I Kings 9:15-17; 12:23
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