2 Samuel 14:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her, “Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

Cross References

Genesis 38:19

She got up and left, then removed her veil and put her widow’s clothes back on.

2 Samuel 11:26

When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband Uriah had died, she mourned for him.

2 Samuel 12:20

Then David got up from the ground. He washed, anointed himself, changed his clothes, went to the Lord’s house, and worshiped. Then he went home and requested something to eat. So they served him food, and he ate.

2 Samuel 20:16

a wise woman called out from the city, “Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here and let me speak with him.”

2 Samuel 23:26

Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite,

1 Kings 14:2

Jeroboam said to his wife, “Go disguise yourself, so they won’t know that you’re Jeroboam’s wife, and go to Shiloh. Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who told about me becoming king over this people.

1 Kings 14:5

But the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Jeroboam’s wife is coming soon to ask you about her son, for he is sick. You are to say such and such to her. When she arrives, she will be disguised.”

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 20:20

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

Nehemiah 3:27

Next to him the Tekoites made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.

Nehemiah 3:5

Beside them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not lift a finger to help their supervisors.

Psalm 104:15

wine that makes man’s heart glad — making his face shine with oil — and bread that sustains man’s heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your clothes be white all the time, and never let oil be lacking on your head.

Jeremiah 6:1

“Run for cover, Benjaminites, out of Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa — what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Matthew 6:17

But when you fast, put oil on your head, and wash your face,

Ruth 3:3

Wash, put on perfumed oil, and wear your best clothes. Go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let the man know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking.