Reference: Tekoa
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A fortress city on the edge of the wilderness to which it gave its name (2Ch 20:20). From here came the 'wise woman' sent by Joab to plead for Absalom (4/2/type/hcsb'>2Sa 14:2,4,8); Rehoboam fortified it (2Ch 11:6), and apparently it continued to be a fortress (Jer 6:1); Amos 'was among the herdmen of Tekoa' (Am 1:1). Tekoa is mentioned also in Septuagint in Jos 15:59, and in the genealogies in 1Ch 4:5-8. The site is now Khurbet Teq
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So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, "Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don't put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.
When the woman from Tekoa came to the king, she fell with her face to the ground in homage and said, "Help me, my king!"
Ashhur fathered Tekoa and had two wives, Helah and Naarah. Naarah bore him Ahuzzam, Hepher, Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were Naarah's sons. read more. Helah's sons: Zereth, Zohar, and Ethnan. Koz fathered Anub, Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel son of Harum.
In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed."
Run for cover, Benjaminites, out of Jerusalem! Sound the ram's horn in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even great destruction.
The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa-what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.