Place
Succoth
Named in 4 verses across 2 books, first in Numbers 33:5.
In these stories
In the Bible
All 2 verses in Numbers, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Numbers
- Numbers 33:5
The Israelites set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
- Numbers 33:6
They set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Events here
Events the dataset sets at Succoth. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.
- c. 1491 BCWilderness Wanderings
Dictionary
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.
Read Easton’s entry
The first encampment of the Israelites after leaving Ramesses (Ex. 12:37); the civil name of Pithom (q.v.).