Tekoa
Tekoa, a town in Judah, known as the birthplace of the prophet Amos and the home of one of David's mighty men.
The name Tekoa means “trumpet; that is confirmed”
PlaceOld Testament6 books14 verses
Summary
A location first mentioned at 2 Samuel 14:2; referred to as Tekoa (תְּקוֹעַ) or Tekoite (תְּקוֹעִי); founded by Ashhur and Rehoboam.
Location
- Identified as
- Khirbet Teku’a
- Certainty
- Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
- Coordinates
- 31.632° N, 35.210° E
Glossary entries
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Mentions
- So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, “Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time.
- When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she fell facedown in homage and said, “Help me, O king!”
- But the woman of Tekoa said to the king, “My lord the king, may any blame be on me and on my father’s house, and may the king and his throne be guiltless.”
- Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,
- After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
- Ashhur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
- Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,
- The sixth, for the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. There were 24,000 men in his division.
- He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
- Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
- Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.
- And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.
- “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
- These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel.