dts israel 2017 HATZOR DAN CAESAREA PHILIPPI

Gezer as a Dowry to Solomon

16For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire, 

and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, 

Solomon's wife. 17So Solomon rebuilt Gezer and the lower Beth-horon

Babylon[edit]

Even in the oldest available records, such as the Code of Hammurabi in ancient Babylon, the dowry is described as an already-existing custom. Daughters did not normally inherit anything from their father’s estate. Instead with marriage, they got a dowry from her parents, which was intended to offer as much lifetime security to the bride as her family could afford.^[21][22]

In Babylonia, both bride price and dowry were practiced. However, bride price almost always became part of the dowry.^[21] In case of divorce without reason, a man was required to give his wife the dowry she brought as well as the bride price the husband gave. The return of dowry could be disputed, if the divorce was for a reason allowed under Babylonian law.^[23][24]

A wife’s dowry was administered by her husband as part of the family assets. He had no say, however, in its ultimate disposal; and legally, the dowry had to be kept separate for it was expected to support the wife and her children. The wife was entitled to her dowry at her husband's death. If she died childless, her dowry reverted to her family, that is her father if he was alive, otherwise her brothers. If she had sons, they would share it equally. Her dowry being inheritable only by her own children, not by her husband's children by other women.^[21]

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