Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
Tekoite
Bible References
Ira
1 Chronicles 11:28
Ira the son of Ikkesh of Tekoa, Abiezer of Anathoth,
1 Chronicles 27:9
The sixth, for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; and in his division were 24,000.
Tekoite
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.