2 Samuel 14:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Joab sent to Tekoa and got from there a wise woman, and said to her, Now make yourself seem like one given up to grief, and put on the clothing of sorrow, not using any sweet oil for your body, but looking like one who for a long time has been weeping for the dead:

Cross References

Genesis 38:19

Then she got up and went away and took off her veil and put on her widow's clothing.

2 Samuel 11:26

And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David got up from the earth, and after washing and rubbing himself with oil and changing his clothing, he went into the house of the Lord and gave worship: then he went back to his house, and at his order they put food before him and he had a meal.

2 Samuel 20:16

Then a wise woman got up on the wall, and crying out from the town, said, Give ear, give ear; say now to Joab, Come near, so that I may have talk with you.

2 Samuel 23:26

Helez the Paltite, Ira, the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

1 Kings 14:2

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.

1 Kings 14:5

And the Lord had said to Ahijah, The wife of Jeroboam is coming to get news from you about her son, who is ill; give her such and such an answer; for she will make herself seem to be another woman.

2 Chronicles 11:6

He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa

2 Chronicles 20:20

And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.

Nehemiah 3:27

After him the Tekoites were making good another part, opposite the great tower which comes out, and up to the wall of the Ophel.

Nehemiah 3:5

Near them, the Tekoites were at work; but their chiefs did not put their necks to the work of their Lord.

Psalm 104:15

And wine to make glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face shining, and bread giving strength to his heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

Jeremiah 6:1

Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa; what he saw about 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 earth-shock.

Matthew 6:17

But when you go without food, put oil on your head and make your face clean;

Ruth 3:3

So take a bath, and, after rubbing your body with sweet oil, put on your best robe, and go down to the grain-floor; but do not let him see you till he has come to the end of his meal.