Tekoa
Where Tekoa sits on the map, and the 14 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Khirbet Teku’a
- Coordinates
- 31.6325, 35.2105
- Mentions
- 14 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
14 verses, in biblical order.
2 Samuel
- 2 Samuel 14:2
so he sent to Tekoa, and he brought from there a wise woman. And he said to her: “Feign that you are in mourning, and put on the clothing of one who mourns. And do not anoint yourself with oil, so that you may be like a woman who is still grieving for someone who died some time ago.
- 2 Samuel 14:4
And so, when the woman of Tekoa had entered to the king, she fell before him on the ground, and she reverenced, and she said, “Save me, O king.”
- 2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoa said to the king: “May the iniquity be upon me, my lord, and upon the house of my father. But may the king and his throne be innocent.”
- 2 Samuel 23:26
Helez from Palti, Ira, the son of Ikkesh, from Tekoa,
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 2:24
Then, when Hezron had died, Caleb entered to Ephratha. Also, Hezron had as wife Abia, who bore to him Ashhur, the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5
Truly, for Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, there were two wives: Helah and Naarah.
- 1 Chronicles 11:28
Ira, the son of Ikkesh, a Tekoite; Abiezer, an Anathothite;
- 1 Chronicles 27:9
The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira, the son of Ikkesh, a Tekoite; and in his company there were twenty-four thousand.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 11:6
And he built up Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 20:20
And when they had risen up in the morning, they went out through the desert of Tekoa. And as they were setting out, Jehoshaphat, standing in their midst, said: “Listen to me, men of Judah and all inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be secure. Believe in his prophets, and everything will come to prosperity.”
Nehemiah
- Nehemiah 3:5
And beside them, the Tekoites built. But the nobles among them did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
- Nehemiah 3:27
After him, the Tekoites built another measure in the opposite area, from the great and prominent tower to the wall of the temple.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 6:1
“O sons of Benjamin, be strengthened in the midst of Jerusalem, and sound the trumpet in Tekoa, and lift up a banner over the house of Haccherem. For an evil has been seen from the north, with great destruction.
Amos
- Amos 1:1
The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds of Tekoa, which he saw about 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.