Bible Trivia - 9/17/2008

Question: How did Solomon come to possess the ruined city of Gezer?

Answer: It was a dowry. (I Kings 9:16)

Comments: Solomon acquired the city of Gezer from Pharaoh as a dowry. Pharoah had previously sacked the city and burned it to the ground.

For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon's wife. (I Kings 9:16, NASB)

Solomon rebuilt the city and Gezer became one of three fortified cities (with Megiddo and Hazor) by which Solomon controlled the all important International Coastal Highway.