Where was Tekoa?

Pitching of tents; fastening down, a town of Judah, about 12 miles south of Jerusalem, and visible from the city. Modern identification: Khirbet Teku’a.

Tekoa is represented in the local geography layer as Khirbet Teku’a. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 2 Samuel 14:2 and is mentioned across 6 books, with 14 verse references collected into the glossary index.