He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

为保障修筑伯利恒、以坦、提哥亚、

他修筑伯利恒、以坦、提哥亚、

他修筑伯利恒、以坦、提哥亚、

他修筑的城池有伯利恒、以坦、提哥亚、

他修筑了伯利恒、以坦、提哥亚、

為保障修築伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

他修築伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

他修築伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

他修築的城池有伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

他修築了伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

他修造了伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

即伯利恆、以坦、提哥亞、

即伯利恆、以淡、提哥亞、

建伯利恆、以探、提哥亞、

Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

And he built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built Beth- lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

He built even Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

The words of Amos, who was one of the sheep breeders from Tekoa— what he saw regarding Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and Jeroboam son of Jehoash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.

Next to him the Tekoites made repairs to another section from a point opposite the great tower that juts out, as far as the wall of Ophel.

Their villages were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, Tochen, and Ashan— five cities,

So Joab sent someone to Tekoa to bring a clever woman from there. He told her,“ Pretend to be in mourning: dress in mourning clothes and don’t put on any oil. Act like a woman who has been mourning for the dead for a long time.

He tore them limb from limb with a great slaughter, and he went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

“ Run for cover, Benjaminites, out of Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; raise a smoke signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster threatens from the north, even great destruction.

Beside them the Tekoites made repairs, but their nobles did not lift a finger to help their supervisors.

So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath( that is, Bethlehem).

Now David was the son of the Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah named Jesse. Jesse had eight sons and during Saul’s reign was already an old man.

“ In Bethlehem of Judea,” they told him,“ because this is what was written by the prophet:And you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the leaders of Judah: because out of you will come a leader who will shepherd My people Israel.”

In the morning they got up early and went out to the wilderness of Tekoa. As they were about to go out, Jehoshaphat stood and said,“ Hear me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe in Yahweh your God, and you will be established; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”