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The keyhole-shaped entrance of the water system at Tel Gezer. Photo: Dan Warner.

An excavator works next to the 130-foot-long plywood cover over the Gezer water system stairs. Excavators would walk on the sandbags seen to the left of the photo. Photo: Gary D. Myers.

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Weren’t there some Giants among the Canaanites?

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I’m surprised this hasn’t been suggested before. Gezer was an important and well-known city long before the time of Exodus and Judges.

Also a convenient location for Israelites, being halfway between the port of Jaffa and Jerusalem.