Word: gezer
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...Yadin disagreed. He knew that the cities of Hazor and Gezer, also attributed to Solomon, had a different kind of wall, and he wondered why Solomon did not build the same style of fortification around all three cities. Following his hunch, he led a group of student-archaeologists to Megiddo. In three days he found what he was looking for: an earlier wall in the style of Hazor and Gezer. This wall, he believes, was really built by Solomon. The later wall and the stables were probably built by Ahab, who became King of Israel 50 years after Solomon...
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