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

The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh, the Tekoite, - and, in his course, were twenty-four thousand.

Moreover, next to him the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their masters.

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