2 Chronicles 11:6

Rehoboam Fortifies Cities In Judah

⁵ Rehoboam lived in Jerusalem and built cities for defense in Judah. ⁶ Thus 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

He struck them ruthlessly with 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, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons. And Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

2 Samuel 14:2

So Joab sent to Tekoa and brought a wise woman from there and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning garments now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has been mourning for the dead many days;

1 Chronicles 4:32

Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen and Ashan, five cities;

2 Chronicles 20:20

They rose early in the morning and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa; and when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, O Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established. Put your trust in His prophets and succeed.”

Nehemiah 3:5

Moreover, next to him the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not support the work of their masters.

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

“Flee for safety, O sons of Benjamin,
From the midst of Jerusalem!
Now blow a trumpet in Tekoa
And raise a signal over Beth-haccerem;
For evil looks down from the north,
And a great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders from Tekoa, which he envisioned in visions concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Matthew 2:5-6

They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea; for this is what has been written by the prophet: