2 Chronicles 11:6

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He built Bethlehem, Etam, and Tekoa,

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  • Gen 35:19 : 19 And Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
  • Judg 15:8 : 8 He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter, and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
  • 1 Sam 17:12 : 12 Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years.
  • 2 Sam 14:2 : 2 And Joab sent to Tekoa, and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray you, pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning clothes now, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but be like a woman who has mourned a long time for the dead:
  • 1 Chr 4:32 : 32 And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan, five cities;
  • 2 Chr 20:20 : 20 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 you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.
  • Neh 3:5 : 5 And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.
  • Neh 3:27 : 27 After them the Tekoites repaired another section, opposite the great tower that protrudes, even to the wall of Ophel.
  • Jer 6:1 : 1 O you children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a signal of fire in Bethhaccerem, for evil appears out of the north, and great destruction.
  • Amos 1:1 : 1 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.
  • Matt 2:5-6 : 5 And they said to him, In Bethlehem of Judea: for thus it is written by the prophet, 6 And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are not the least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a Governor who shall rule my people Israel.

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