Person Old Testament
Ira
Ira the Tekoite was one of King David's Thirty mighty warriors. Mentioned in 3 verses across 2 books, first at 2 Samuel 23:26.
Why it matters. One of David's Thirty warriors, from Tekoa.
- Primary passages
- Last reviewed
- 2026-08-30 by the FaithGraph team
About Ira
Ira the Tekoite is named as one of King David's Thirty mighty warriors in 2Sa.23.26 and 1Ch.11.28. The Thirty were an elite group of soldiers who fought valiantly for David. Ira came from the town of Tekoa in Judah, about 10 miles south of Jerusalem. 1Ch.27.9 mentions that Ira was in charge of a division of 24,000 men in David's army, overseeing them during the sixth month of the year. He is called the son of Ikkesh the Tekoite.
Description from STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0, lightly reformatted. This is background reference material, not Scripture and not a FaithGraph editorial claim.
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Family
Family links from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0). Where the dataset marks an identification as uncertain, the mark is kept. Matthew and Luke give different genealogies for Jesus; see the Lineage page, which never merges them.
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- Ikkesh
Appears in Scripture
Named in 3 verses across 2 books. Occurrence data from STEPBible TIPNR (CC BY 4.0); references only, no translation text.