2 Chronicles 11:6

Rehoboam Fortifies Cities In Judah

⁵ Now Rehoboam kept in Jerusalem, building walled towns in Judah. ⁶ He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa ⁷ And Beth-zur and Soco and Adullam

Build the House

Beth-lehem

Bethlehem

Etam

Tekoa

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel came to her end and was put to rest on the road to Ephrath (which is Beth-lehem).

Judges 15:8

And he made an attack on them, driving them in uncontrolled flight, and causing great destruction; then he went away to his safe place in the crack of the rock at Etam.

1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

2 Samuel 14:2

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

1 Chronicles 4:32

And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns;

2 Chronicles 20:20

And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.

Nehemiah 3:5

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

Nehemiah 3:27

After him the Tekoites were making good another part, opposite the great tower which comes out, and up to the wall of the Ophel.

Jeremiah 6:1

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about 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 earth-shock.

Matthew 2:5-6

And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,