TEKOA, Thecue, or Thecua, a City of the Tribe of Judah, 2 Chron. xi. 6. It is also in the Greek of Joshua, xv. 60, but it is not found in the Hebrew. Eusebius and St. Jerome place Tekoa twelve Miles from Jerusalem, towards the South. In another Place St. Jerome says, that it was six Miles from Bethlehem towards the South: See his Prologue to Amos. It stood upon a Mountain, and was the farthest Place that was to be found that way, as far as the Red Sea. Joseph. de bell. l. 5. c. 7.Josephus says that Tekoa was not far from the Castle of Herodium. There is mention made of the Wilderness of Tekoa, 2 Chron. xx. 20.
Which Wilderness is not far from the Red Sea. 1 Macc. ix. 4.