This document is about Succoth (East of the Jordan River). For other homonyms, please refer to the Succoth document. It is a region located east of the Jordan River. It was the first place Jacob encamped after returning from Laban's land and meeting Esau.
Genesis 33:17Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.
가나안 정복전쟁 당시에는 헤스본왕 시혼이 다스리던 지역이었으나 여호수아에 의해 점령되어 갓 지파에게 분배되었다.
Joshua 13:26and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan)’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.Joshua 13:27This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and its villages.Joshua 13:28Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.
사사 기드온이 미디안 족속과의 전쟁에 승리한 뒤 그들을 추격하여 이곳까지 이르렀다가 지원을 거절당한다.
Judges 8:4He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”Judges 8:5The princes of Succoth said, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?”Judges 8:6Gideon said, “Therefore when Yahweh has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.”Judges 8:7He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
Judges 8:13He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.Judges 8:14He came to the men of Succoth, and said, “See Zebah and Zalmunna), concerning whom you taunted me, saying, ‘Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna now in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are weary?’ ”Judges 8:15He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.Judges 8:16He broke down the tower of Penuel, and killed the men of the city.Judges 8:17Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, “What kind of men were they whom you killed at Tabor?” They answered, “They were like you. They all resembled the children of a king.”
이후, 솔로몬시절에 이곳에서 금속 기구들을 만들 었다.
1 Kings 7:46Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because there were so many of them. The weight of the bronze could not be determined.
2 Chronicles 4:17Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance; for the weight of the bronze could not be determined.