2 Samuel 14:2

So Joab sent word to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there and told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothes, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has for many days been in mourning for the dead.

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] 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.

Ruth 3:3

So wash and anoint yourself [with olive oil], then put on your [best] clothes, and go down to the threshing floor; but stay out of the man’s sight until he has finished eating and drinking.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David got up from the ground, washed, anointed himself [with olive oil], changed his clothes, and went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he came [back] to his own house, and when he asked, they set food before him and he ate.

2 Chronicles 20:20

So they got up early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe and trust in the Lord your God and you will be established (secure). Believe and trust in His prophets and succeed.”

Nehemiah 3:5

Next to him the men of Tekoa made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their overseers.

Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for safety, you children of Benjamin,
Out of the midst of Jerusalem!
And blow a trumpet in Tekoa [in Judah]
And raise a signal-fire in Beth-haccherem [near Jerusalem];
For evil is looking down [with eager anticipation] from the north,
And great destruction.

2 Samuel 11:26

When Uriah’s wife [Bathsheba] heard that her husband Uriah was dead, she mourned for her husband.

Nehemiah 3:27

After them the Tekoites repaired another section in front of the great projecting tower and as far as the wall of Ophel.

Psalm 104:15

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,
So that he may make his face glisten with oil,
And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your clothes always be white [with purity], and do not let the oil [of gladness] be lacking on your head.

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, put oil on your head [as you normally would to groom your hair] 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