2 Chronicles 11:6

Rehoboam Fortifies Cities In Judah

⁵ Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built [fortified] cities for defense in Judah. ⁶ He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, ⁷ Beth-zur, Soco, Adullam,

Build the House

Beth-lehem

Bethlehem

Etam

Tekoa

Genesis 35:19

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

Judges 15:8

Then he struck them without mercy, a great slaughter; and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

2 Samuel 14:2

So Joab sent word to Tekoa and had a wise woman brought from there and told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothes, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has for many days been in mourning for the dead.

1 Chronicles 4:32

These were their villages: Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five cities—

2 Chronicles 20:20

So they got up early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe and trust in the Lord your God and you will be established (secure). Believe and trust in His prophets and succeed.”

Nehemiah 3:5

Next to him the men of Tekoa made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their overseers.

Nehemiah 3:27

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

Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for safety, you children of Benjamin,
Out of the midst of Jerusalem!
And blow a trumpet in Tekoa [in Judah]
And raise a signal-fire in Beth-haccherem [near Jerusalem];
For evil is looking down [with eager anticipation] from the north,
And great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa, which he saw [in a divine revelation] 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.

Matthew 2:5-6

They replied to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is what has been written by the prophet [Micah]: