2 Samuel 14:2

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa—what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Ruth 3:3

Wash, put on perfumed oil, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the Lord’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate.

2 Chronicles 20:20

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Nehemiah 3:5

Beside them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not lift a finger to help their supervisors.

Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for cover, Benjaminites,
out of Jerusalem!
Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa;
raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem,
for disaster threatens from the north,
even great destruction.

2 Samuel 11:26

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah had died, she mourned for him.

Nehemiah 3:27

Next to him the Tekoites made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.

Psalm 104:15

wine that makes man’s heart glad—
making his face shine with oil—
and bread that sustains man’s heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your clothes be white all the time, and never let oil be lacking on your head.

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, put oil on your head, and wash your face,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Mourning

Matthew 6:17

General references

2 Samuel 20:16

Luke 7:46

Bible References