the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
"Gezer ..." From the earliest times Gezer was an important city on the road between Joppa and Jerusalem.  The Egyptians recaptured Gezer following the Conquest (about 1224 B.C.); and the place did not again become a possession of Israel until the times of Solomon, when Pharaoh gave it to his daughter, one of the wives of Solomon.  Solomon fortified the place and rebuilt it; and it figured extensively in the Maccabean wars.[18]