Place
Tekoa
Judean town on the wilderness edge south of Bethlehem; home of Amos the herdman (Amos 1:1) and the wise woman of 2 Samuel 14.
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Where it is
- Region
- Judean hill country
- Kind of place
- Town
Tekoa in Scripture
9 verses name it — all of them- 2 Samuel 14:2And Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel, I pray thee, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that hath a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:4And when the woman of Tekoa spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:9And the woman of Tekoa said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 1 Chronicles 2:24And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5And Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:6He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 20:20And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem: believe in Jehovah your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
- Jeremiah 6:1Flee for safety, ye children of Benjamin, out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beth-haccherem; for evil looketh forth from the north, and a great destruction.
- Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.