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Tekoa

Today: Khirbet Teku’a

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Map of the Bible lands with Tekoa marked. About 31.6° north, 35.2° east.
Each small dot is a place named in the Bible. The large dot is Tekoa.
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Verses that mention Tekoa

  1. 2 Samuel 14:2

    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. 2 Samuel 14:4

    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.

  3. 2 Samuel 14:9

    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.

  4. 2 Samuel 23:26

    Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

  5. 1 Chronicles 2:24

    And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

  6. 1 Chronicles 4:5

    And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

  7. 1 Chronicles 11:28

    Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Antothite,

  8. 1 Chronicles 27:9

    The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

  9. 2 Chronicles 11:6

    He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

  10. 2 Chronicles 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.

  11. Nehemiah 3:5

    And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

  12. Nehemiah 3:27

    After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.

  13. Jeremiah 6:1

    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.

  14. Amos 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.

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