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Tekoa

Tekoa

31.6325°, 35.2105°

The Korean name is a draft derived from the Korean Bible and has not been reviewed yet.

Abarim Cabul 2 Edom Midian Jerusalem Samaria 1 Sodom Mount Sinai Kadesh-barnea Gaza Ramoth-gilead Hazor 1 Netophah Etam 3 Ephrath Ephrathah Bethlehem 1 Zior Eder 1 Maarath Tekoa
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Where the Bible names it (14)

  1. 2 Samuel 14:2 Joab sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead.
  2. 2 Samuel 14:4 When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!”
  3. 2 Samuel 14:9 The woman of Tekoa said to 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 After that Hezron was dead in Caleb Ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
  6. 1 Chronicles 4:5 Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
  7. 1 Chronicles 11:28 Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
  8. 1 Chronicles 27:9 The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
  9. 2 Chronicles 11:6 He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
  10. 2 Chronicles 20:20 They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you shall be established! Believe his prophets, so you shall prosper.”
  11. Nehemiah 3:5 Next to them, the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles didn’t put their necks to the work of their lord.
  12. Nehemiah 3:27 After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of Ophel.
  13. Jeremiah 6:1 “Flee for safety, you 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 looks out from the north, and a great destruction.
  14. Amos 1:1 The 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.

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