Jeremiah 6:1

Modern English Version

O sons of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccherem; for disaster appears out of the north, and great destruction.

Cross References

2 Samuel 14:2

So Joab sent a request to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman. He instructed her, “Act as if you are observing mourning rites. Put on mourning garments, and do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning over the dead like this for many days.

2 Chronicles 11:6

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

Nehemiah 3:14

But the Refuse Gate was repaired by Malkijah the son of Rekab, commander of the Beth-haccherem district. He rebuilt it and erected its doors with its locks and bars.

Nehemiah 3:5

Next to them the Tekoites made repairs, but their noblemen would not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.

Jeremiah 10:22

Behold, the sound of the report has come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate and a den of jackals.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations; I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jeremiah 4:29

The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen. They shall go into thickets and climb up upon the rocks. Every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell in it.

Jeremiah 6:22

Thus says the Lord: Behold, a people comes from the north country, and a great nation will be raised from the remote parts of the earth.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the shepherds 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.

Amos 3:6

If the trumpet blasts in the city, are not the people frightened? If there is disaster against a city, is it not the Lord who has done it?

Zechariah 6:6

The one with the black horses is going toward the north country, the white ones are going after them, while the dappled ones are going toward the south country.”

Joshua 15:63

The people of Judah were not able to drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.

Judges 1:21

However, the tribe of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, so the Jebusites live with the tribe of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.