Tekoah
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- Also called TEKOA
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A city in the territory of Judah
2 Chr 11:6
6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 11:6 -
Home of the woman who interceded for Absalom
2 Sam 14:2, 4, 9
2 And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
2 Samuel 14:24 And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
2 Samuel 14:49 And the woman of Tekoah 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.
2 Samuel 14:9 -
Rebuilt by Rehoboam
2 Chr 11:6
6 He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
2 Chronicles 11:6 -
Desert of
2 Chr 20:20
20 And 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 the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles 20:20 -
People of, work on the new wall of Jerusalem
Neh 3:5, 27
5 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.
Nehemiah 3:527 After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
Nehemiah 3:27 -
Prophecy concerning
Jer 6:1
1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Jeremiah 6:1 -
Home of Amos
Amos 1:1
1 The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen 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.
Amos 1:1 - See Tekoa
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.
