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Queen of the South’s capital city in Negev

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     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 might actually be pointing to quite a different Gezer. And so I wrote:   …. Thutmose I fits n