Nehemiah 3:5
And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their ranking men did not put their necks to the work of their lord.
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Judges 5:23Curse ye Meroz, said the agent of LORD. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants of it, because they did not come to the help of LORD, to the help of LORD against the mighty.
2 Chronicles 11:6He built Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
Jeremiah 5:4Then I said, Surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of LORD, nor the law of their God.
Jeremiah 27:2Thus says LORD to me: Make thee bonds and bars, and put them upon thy neck.
Jeremiah 27:12And I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.
Amos 1:1The words of Amos, who was among the herdsmen 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 Henry on Nehemiah 3:2-32
The Rebuilding of the Wall. ( b. c. 445.) 1 Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel. 2 And next unto him builded the men of Jericho. And next to them builded Zaccur the son of Imri. 3 But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars… Read the whole commentary →