Tekoa

Nehemiah

Every Hand on the Wall

Tekoa is introduced here as the town whose common people showed up to build while their own nobles refused — establishing the contrast between the workers and the elite that will resurface later in the chapter.

2 Samuel

The Longest Way Home

Tekoa is where Joab sourced his instrument — a wise woman whose hometown reputation for wisdom made her the right person to play this delicate role before the king.

2 Samuel

The Last Words and the Men Who Stayed

Tekoa is listed as the hometown of Ira son of Ikkesh — a town in Judah that would later produce the prophet Amos, here identified simply as the origin of one of David's thirty warriors.

1 Chronicles

More Than a List of Names

Tekoa is introduced here not as the prophet Amos's hometown but as the town whose founding father is Ashhur — giving this well-known location its genealogical origins.

1 Chronicles

The King and the Warriors Who Made It Happen

Tekoa appears here as the hometown of Ira, one of David's thirty warriors — a town in the Judean hills whose later fame as the home of the prophet Amos gives it a minor but distinct biblical identity.