Gedor

Gedor ("a wall") was a town in the hill country of Judah south of Bethlehem (Joshua 15:58, 1 Chronicles 4:18). It briefly took center stage during the Simeonite expansion recorded in 1 Chronicles 4:39-43: in the days of King Hezekiah, the Simeonites pushed beyond their traditional Negev territory "to the entrance of Gedor, to seek pasture for their flocks." Finding rich grazing land, they struck down the Hamite shepherds and the Meunim who had lived there and settled in their place — a quiet snapshot of Simeonite frontier pressure even as the northern kingdom was collapsing under Assyrian invasion.