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/kj2000'>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 Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and brought from there a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray you, pretend to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
And when the woman of Tekoah spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and pain him honor, and said, Help, O king.
And the king said unto the woman, Go to your house, and I will give orders concerning you.
And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. And Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah. read more. And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Izhar, and Ethnan. And Koz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall you be established; believe his prophets, so shall you prosper.
O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal of fire in Beth-haccherem: for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw 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.