Yo'av sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:
Nehemiah 3:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Next to them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles didn't put their necks to the work of their lord. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their Lord. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles or lords did not put their necks to the work of their Lord. American Standard Version (1901) And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their lord. Common English Bible Next to them the people from Tekoa made repairs, but their officials wouldn’t help with the work of their supervisors. Catholic Public Domain Version And beside them, the Tekoites built. But the nobles among them did not put their necks to the work of their Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And next to them the Thecuites built: but their great men did not put their necks to the work of their Lord. |
Yo'av sent to Tekoa, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, please act like a mourner, and put on mourning clothing, Please, and don't anoint yourself with oil, but be as a woman who has a long time mourned for the dead:
After him the Tekoites repaired another portion, over against the great tower that stands out, and to the wall of `Ofel.
Next to them repaired Meremot the son of Uriyah, the son of Hakkotz. Next to them repaired Meshullam the son of Berekhyah, the son of Meshezav'el. Next to them repaired Tzadok the son of Ba`anah.
The old gate repaired Yoiada the son of Pase'ach and Meshullam the son of Besodyah; they laid the beams of it, and set up the doors of it, and the bolts of it, and the bars of it.
I spoke to Tzidkiyahu king of Yehudah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Bavel, and serve him and his people, and live.
Thus says the LORD to me: Make you bonds and bars, and put them on your neck;
It shall happen, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Bavel, that nation will I punish, says the LORD, with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Flee for safety, you children of Binyamin, out of the midst of Yerushalayim, and blow the shofar in Tekoa, and raise up a signal on Beit-Hakkerem; for evil looks forth from the north, and a great destruction.
The words of `Amos, who was among the herdsmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Yisra'el in the days of `Uzziyah king of Yehudah, and in the days of Yarov`am the son of Yo'ash king of Yisra'el, two years before the earthquake.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls.
Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the talmidim which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;
Curse Meroz, said the angel of the LORD. Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn't come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.