Tekoa
Tekoa is a settlement mentioned in 14 verses. Its most likely location is Khirbet Teku’a. The name means “trumpet; that is confirmed.”
Where is Tekoa?
Approx. 31.6325, 35.2105 · OpenStreetMap · Google Maps
Possible modern locations
| Identification | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Khirbet Teku’a | settlement | High |
Tekoa in the Bible dictionary
Pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. From this place Joab procured a “wise woman,” who pretended to be in great affliction, and skilfully made her case known to David. Her address to the king was in the form of an apologue, similar to that of Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1-6). The object of Joab was, by the intervention of this woman, to induce David to bring back Absalom to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 14:2, 4, 9).
This was also the birth-place of the prophet Amos (1:1).
It is now the village of Teku’a, on the top of a hill among ruins, 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and close to Beth-haccerem (“Herod’s mountain”).
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Verses that mention Tekoa
- 2 Samuel 14:2
And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead:
- 2 Samuel 14:4
And when the woman of Tekoah spake to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, and did obeisance, and said, Help, O king.
- 2 Samuel 14:9
And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.
- 2 Samuel 23:26
Helez the Paltite, Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- 1 Chronicles 2:24
And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
- 1 Chronicles 4:5
And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- 1 Chronicles 11:28
Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abi–ezer the Antothite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:9
The sixth captain for the sixth month was Ira the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- 2 Chronicles 11:6
He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
- 2 Chronicles 20:20
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 ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.