1 Kings 9:16

For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and taken Gezer and burnt it with fire [The total destruction of the place and its inhabitants by fire and sword looks more like an act of vengeance for some grave offence than like ordinary warfare], and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city [Though Gezer was allotted to Ephraim ( Joshua 16:3 ) and designated as a Levitical city ( ib ; 1 Kings 21:21 ), the Canaanite inhabitants had never been dispossessed ( Joshua 16:10 ; LXX . "Canaanites and Perizzites;" cf. 1:29 ), and they would seem to have enjoyed a sort of independence], and given it for a present [ שִׁלֻחִים , dotatio, dowry. It is the custom of the East for the husband to purchase his wife by a present ( Genesis 29:18 ; 2 Samuel 3:14 , etc.); but in royal marriages a dowry was often given. "Sargon gave Cilicia as a dowry with his daughter .... Antiochus Soter gave his claims on Macedonia as a dowry to his step-daughter Phila, when she married Antigonus Gonatas. Coele-Syria and Palestine were promised as a dowry to Ptolemy Epiphanes, when he married Cleopatra, sister of Antiochus the Great," etc. (Rawlinson). Gezer being a wedding present, its conquest must have taken place years before the date to which the history is now brought down] unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.