2Sa 14:2, 2Ch 11:6, 20:20, Jer 6:1 | TSK | STEP | to Tekoah.Tekoah was a city of Judah, situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Josephus says it was not far from the castle of Herodium; and Jerome (Prologue to Amos) says it stood on a hill six miles south from Bethlehem. Dr. Poccocke places it at the same distance; and says there are still considerable ruins on the top of a hill, which is about half a mile long and a furlong broad. Tekoa. mourning.

2 Samuel 14:2

to Tekoah.Tekoah was a city of Judah, situated, according to Eusebius and Jerome, twelve miles south of Jerusalem. Josephus says it was not far from the castle of Herodium; and Jerome (Prologue to Amos) says it stood on a hill six miles south from Bethlehem. Dr. Poccocke places it at the same distance; and says there are still considerable ruins on the top of a hill, which is about half a mile long and a furlong broad.

2Ch 11:6; 20:20; Ne 3:5,27; Jer 6:1; Am 1:1

Tekoa. mourning.

11:26; Ru 3:3; Ps 104:15; Ec 9:8; Mt 6:17

2 Chronicles 11:6

Beth-lehem.Bethlehem, called Bethlehem Judah (Jud 17:7,) to distinguish it from another Bethlehem in Zebulun, (Jos 19:15,) and also Ephratah, (i.e., fruitful,) and by the Arabs, Bait-el-lahm, is situated on a rising ground on the southern side of a deep and extensive valley, and reclining from E. to W. not quite six miles S. of Jerusalem.

Ge 35:19; 1Sa 17:12; Mt 2:5,6

Etam.

Jud 15:8; 1Ch 4:32

Tekoa.

20:20; 2Sa 14:2; Ne 3:5,27; Jer 6:1; Am 1:1