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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Gezrites
David raided them from Ziklag along with the Geshurites and Amalekites. Most read the name as Girzites, an otherwise unknown desert tribe in the Negev toward Egypt, and not the people of Gezer.
David raided them from Ziklag along with the Geshurites and Amalekites. Most read the name as Girzites, an otherwise unknown desert tribe in the Negev toward Egypt, and not the people of Gezer.
Gezrites, named alongside the Geshurites and Amalekites as targets of David's raids while he lived among the Philistines at Ziklag, are usually read as the Girzites, an otherwise unknown desert tribe in the Negev toward Egypt, rather than the inhabitants of the well-known city of Gezer in central Canaan.
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- 1 Samuel 27:8
