Joshua 10:33

Ver. 33. Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to help Lachish, &c.— While Joshua was besieging Lachish, the king of Gezer came to its assistance. Gezer was in the south part of the country, which fell to the tribe of Ephraim, (ch. Joshua 16:3.) between Beth-horon and the sea, and, as it should seem, not far from Gibeon: 1 Chronicles 14:16 but it is evident that the Israelites did not possess it till the time of Solomon, to whom it was given by his father-in-law, Pharaoh, 1 Kings 9:16. In St. Jerome's time, it was no more than a little town, known by the name of Gazara, four miles south of Nicopolia, the ancient Emmaus. Joshua did not proceed thither, but detached a party of his army from Lachish, which cut in pieces that of Horam, and then came back and completed the siege.