Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index This is an article from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.\nThis article is written from a nineteenth century Christian viewpoint, and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries in Biblical scholarship.\nPlease help the Wikipedia by bringing this article up to date. Tekoah Tekoa - pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12\nmiles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. From this\nplace Joab procured a "wise woman," who pretended to be in great\naffliction, and skilfully made her case known to David. Her\naddress to the king was in the form of an apologue, similar to\nthat of Nathan (2 Sam. 12:1-6). The object of Joab was, by the\nintervention of this woman, to induce David to bring back\nAbsalom to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 14:2, 4, 9). This was also the birth-place of the prophet Amos (1:1). It is now the village of Teku'a, on the top of a hill among\nruins, 5 miles south of Bethlehem, and close to Beth-haccerem\n("Herod's mountain"). From Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.