Gimzo

Gimzo ("place of sycamores") was one of six Shephelah and Negev cities the Philistines captured from King Ahaz during the Syro-Ephraimite war crisis: "The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country... and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho, and Timnah, and Gimzo also" (2 Chronicles 28:18). The Philistines exploited Ahaz's strategic weakness when he stripped Judah's western defenses to bribe Tiglath-pileser of Assyria into rescuing Jerusalem. The site is identified with Jimzu near Lod.