6He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
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And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
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.
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:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)How the ten tribes deserted the house of David we read in the foregoing chapter. They had formerly sat loose to that family ( 2 Sam. 20:1 , 2 ), and now they quite threw it off, not considering how much it would weaken the common interest and take Israel down from that pitch of glory at which it had arrived in the last reign. But thus the kingdom must be corrected as well as the house of David. 1.…
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