2 Chronicles 11:6
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,”
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BSBPD
“He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“He built even Beth–lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“yea, he buildeth Beth-Lehem and Etam, and Tekoa,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo 2 Chronicles 11:6 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 35:19So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
- Judges 15:8And he struck them ruthlessly with a great slaughter, and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.
- 1 Samuel 17:12Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.
- 2 Samuel 14:2So 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.
- 1 Chronicles 4:3These were the sons of Etam: Jezreel, Ishma, and Idbash. And their sister was named Hazzelelponi.
- 1 Chronicles 4:32And their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan—five towns—
- 2 Chronicles 20:20Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”
- Nehemiah 3:5Next to him, the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not put their shoulders to the work under their supervisors.
- Nehemiah 3:27And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.
- Jeremiah 6:1“Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.
- Amos 1:1These 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.
- Matthew 2:5“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
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