TSK · 1 Samuel 27:8

Then Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim.

Amalek dwells in the land of the South: and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan."

"This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.

Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.

Absalom answered Joab, "Behold, I sent to you, saying, 'Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, "Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore let me see the king's face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me."'"

This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.