2 Samuel 14:2

New King James Version

And Joab sent to Tekoa and brought from there a wise woman, and said to her, “Please pretend to be a mourner, and put on mourning apparel; do not anoint yourself with oil, but act like a woman who has been mourning a long time for the dead.

Cross References

Genesis 38:19

So she arose and went away, and laid aside her veil and put on the garments of her widowhood.

2 Samuel 11:26

When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

2 Samuel 12:20

So David arose from the ground, washed and anointed himself, and changed his clothes; and he went into the house of the Lord and worshiped. Then he went to his own house; and when he requested, they set food before him, and he ate.

2 Samuel 20:16

Then a wise woman cried out from the city, “Hear, hear! Please say to Joab, ‘Come nearby, that I may speak 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, “Please arise, and disguise yourself, that they may not recognize you as the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh. Indeed, Ahijah the prophet is there, who told me that I would be king over this people.

1 Kings 14:5

Now the Lord had said to Ahijah, “Here is the wife of Jeroboam, coming to ask you something about her son, for he is sick. Thus and thus you shall say to her; for it will be, when she comes in, that she will pretend to be another woman.”

2 Chronicles 11:6

And he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

2 Chronicles 20:20

So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the Lord your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.”

Nehemiah 3:27

After them the Tekoites repaired another section, next to the great projecting tower, and as far as the wall of Ophel.

Nehemiah 3:5

Next to them the Tekoites made repairs; but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work of their Lord.

Psalm 104:15

And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man’s heart.

Ecclesiastes 9:8

Let your garments always be white, And let your head lack no oil.

Jeremiah 6:1

“O you children of Benjamin, Gather yourselves to flee from the midst of Jerusalem! Blow the trumpet in Tekoa, And set up a signal-fire in Beth Haccerem; For disaster appears out of the north, And great destruction.

Amos 1:1

The words of Amos, who was among the sheepbreeders 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.

Matthew 6:17

But you, when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face,

Ruth 3:3

Therefore wash yourself and anoint yourself, put on your best garment and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.