Biblical places
Succoth
Where Jacob built shelters for his livestock after leaving Peniel (Genesis 33:17), and later where Gideon was refused help while pursuing Midian (Judges 8). Identified with Tell Deir Alla near where the Jordan and Jabbok rivers meet.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Probable
- Tell Deir Alla
- 32.1889, 35.6031
An identification supported by most scholars, though not a 100% consensus.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Genesis 33:17
And Jacob journeyed to Succoth, and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle: therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
Exodus 12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
Numbers 33:5
And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Joshua 13:27
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
Judges 8:5
And he said unto the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread unto the people that follow me; for they be faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
1 Kings 7:46
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
2 Chronicles 4:17
In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.
Psalms 60:6
God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.