팔레스타인의 해안 평야의 내륙 쪽에 위치한, 왕이 다스리던 도시. 게셀은 그곳 왕이 여호수아가 지휘하는 이스라엘 군대로부터 라기스를 구하려다가 실패한 내용에 처음으로 언급되어 있다.
Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish ; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.
7 These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak , that goes up to Seir . Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
8 in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah , and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
9 10 the king of Jerusalem , one; the king of Hebron, one;
11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish , one;
12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer , one;
이후에 에브라엠 지파에게 배분되었다.
and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer ; and ended at the sea.
Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran , and westward Gezer , with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
그러나 그 민족들을 완전히 쫓아내지는 못했다.
They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer ; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.
이렇게 배분된 게셀은 레위인 중 고핫 사람들을 위해할당되었다.
20 The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim .
21 They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim , the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
66 Some of the families of the sons of Kohath had cities of their borders out of the tribe of Ephraim .
67 They gave to them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim with its pasture lands, and Gezer with its pasture lands,
David 시대에 이곳에 사는 블레셋 민족을 공격했다.
또한 다윗의 용사
Sibbecai 는 게셀에서
Rephaim 자손인
Sibbai 를 죽였다.
After this, war arose at Gezer with the Philistines . Then Sibbecai the Hushathite killed Sippai, of the sons of the giant; and they were subdued.
Solomon 시대에 애굽의 바로가 이 게셀을 점령한 뒤, 솔로몬 아내에게 지참금을 주었다.
이후 솔로몬이 온전히 점령하여 성읍을 쌓은 것으로 보인다.
15 This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem ’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo , and Gezer .
16 Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, taken Gezer , burned it with fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it for a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon ’s wife.
17 18 19 all the storage cities that Solomon had, the cities for his chariots, the cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon desired to build for his pleasure in Jerusalem , and in Lebanon , and in all the land of his dominion.
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