Gezer

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Gezer
     a precipice, an ancient royal Canaanitish city (Josh. 10:33;
     12:12). It was allotted with its suburbs to the Kohathite
     Levites (21:21; 1 Chr. 6:67). It stood between the lower
     Beth-horon and the sea (Josh. 16:3; 1 Kings 9:17). It was the
     last point to which David pursued the Philistines (2 Sam. 5:25;


     1 Chr. 14:16) after the battle of Baal-perazim. The Canaanites
     retained possession of it till the time of Solomon, when the
     king of Egypt took it and gave it to Solomon as a part of the
     dowry of the Egyptian princess whom he married (1 Kings
     9:15-17). It is identified with Tell el-Jezer, about 10 miles
     south-west of Beth-horon. It is mentioned in the Amarna tablets.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Gezer, dividing, sentence