Reference: Tekoa
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A fortress city on the edge of the wilderness to which it gave its name (2Ch 20:20). From here came the 'wise woman' sent by Joab to plead for Absalom (4/2/type/juliasmith'>2Sa 14:2,4,8); Rehoboam fortified it (2Ch 11:6), and apparently it continued to be a fortress (Jer 6:1); Amos 'was among the herdmen of Tekoa' (Am 1:1). Tekoa is mentioned also in Septuagint in Jos 15:59, and in the genealogies in 1Ch 4:5-8. The site is now Khurbet Teq
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And Maarath and the House of Anoth, and Eltekon; six cities and their enclosures:
And Joab will send to Tekoah and take from thence a wise woman, and he will say to her, Thou shalt mourn, and put on now garments of mourning, and thou shalt not be anointed with oil, and be thou as a woman this many days mourning for the dead:
And the woman, the Tekoite, will speak to the king and fall upon her face to the earth, and worship him, and say, Save, O king!
And the king will say to the woman, Go to thy house and I will command concerning thee.
And to Ashur the father of Tekoa, were two wives, Helah and Naarah. And Naarah will bear to him Ahuzzam and Hepher, and Temeni, and Hahashtari. These the sons of Naraah. read more. And the sons of Helah, Zereth, Jezoar, and Ethnan. And Coz begat Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.
And he will build the house of bread, and the place of ravenous beasts, and the pitching of tents,
And they will rise early in the morning and go forth to the desert of Tekoa: and in their going forth Jehoshaphat stood, and he will say, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabiting Jerusalem; Believe in Jehovah your God and ye shall be firm; believe in his prophets and prosper.
Be strong, ye sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa strike the trumpet, and lift up a lifting up upon the house of the vineyard, for evil overhung from the north, and great breaking.
The words of Amos who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the shaking.