So Joab sent to Tekoa to bring a wise woman from there. He told her, "Please pretend to be a mourner; put on clothes for mourning and do not anoint yourself with oil. Act like a woman who has mourned for the dead a long time. Cross References 2 Samuel 12:20 Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and worshiped. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate. 2 Samuel 20:16 a wise woman called out from the city, "Listen! Listen! Please tell Joab to come here so that I may speak with him." 2 Samuel 23:26 Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, 1 Kings 14:2 and Jeroboam said to his wife, "Now get up, disguise yourself so they will not recognize you as my wife, and go to Shiloh. For Ahijah the prophet is there; it was he who spoke about my kingship over this people. 1 Kings 14:5 But the LORD had said to Ahijah, "Behold, the wife of Jeroboam is coming to ask you about her son, for he is ill. You are to say such and such to her, because when she arrives, she will be disguised." 2 Chronicles 11:6 He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa, Amos 1:1 These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa--what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel. Treasury of Scripture And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched there a wise woman, and said to her, I pray you, feign yourself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not yourself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead: 2 Chronicles 11:6 2 Chronicles 20:20 Nehemiah 3:5,27 Tekoa 2 Samuel 11:26 Ruth 3:3 Psalm 104:15 |