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Results for: where is Tekoa
9 verses · 15 renderings Best match first Clear
Tekoa minor · on 2 maps
Tekoaplace
Named in 2 Samuel, 2 Chronicles, Jeremiah, Amos. Everything known about Tekoa
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No verse holds that whole question. Showing 9 verses naming Tekoa.
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2 Samuel 14:2
WEB Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there, and said to her, “Please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, please, and don’t anoint yourself with oil; but be as a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead. -
2 Samuel 14:4
WEB When the woman of Tekoa spoke to the king, she fell on her face to the ground, showed respect, and said, “Help, O king!” -
2 Samuel 14:9
WEB The woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord, O king, may the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house; and may the king and his throne be guiltless.” -
1 Chronicles 2:24
WEB After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa. KJV And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa. -
1 Chronicles 4:5
WEB Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. KJV And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah. -
2 Chronicles 11:6
WEB He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, KJV He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa, -
2 Chronicles 20:20
WEB They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.” KJV 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. -
Jeremiah 6:1
WEB “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa and raise up a signal on Beth Haccherem, for evil looks out from the north with a great destruction. KJV O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction. -
Amos 1:1
WEB The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw 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. KJV The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw 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.
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