Queen of the South’s capital city in Negev
by Damien F. Mackey ‘The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon's wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here’. Matthew 12:42 Was this “another Gezer”? “There was another Gezer on the south-west of Canaan, the inhabitants of which David and his warriors smote , 1 Sam. xxvii. 8”. John Brown In a recent article: Pharaohs known to Old Testament Israel https://www.academia.edu/39829674/Pharaohs_known_to_Old_Testament_Israel I got the opportunity to juxtapose a former view of mine - that the city of Gezer sacked by the biblical “Pharaoh king of Egypt” (I Kings 9:16) was at the site of Tel Gezer in central Israel - with a new suspicion that this text migh...