So the Tekoite woman spoke to the king, and she fell on her face to the ground and did obeisance. She said, "Help me, O king!"

The Tekoite woman said to the king, "On me, my lord the king, [is] the guilt, and on the house of my father, but the king on his throne [is] innocent."

Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite; 24,000 were in his division.

And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord.

After them the Tekoites repaired another section, opposite the great tower that lies out, even unto the wall of Ophel.

Come out of Jerusalem, ye strong children of Benjamin! Blow up the trumpets ye Tekoites, set up a token unto Bethhaccherem; for a plague and a great misery peepeth out from the North.