Succoth-benoth or Succoth Benoth (Hebrew: סֻכּוֹת בְּנוֹת, romanized: Huts of Daughters) was a Babylonian deity, one of the gods brought to the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) during the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
(2 Kings 17:6) The "men" from each of these five cities set up their gods in the shrines of the land, mixing it with the worship of Yahweh.
(2 Kings 17:30-31)[1] The Bible says that these deities were idols, although the Samaritans were not punished because they worshipped the God of the Israelites as well.
Hayim Tawil noted that Bànitu (Akkadian: 𒁀𒉌𒌈 Ba.ni.TUM, "the female creature") was an epithet of Ishtar in Nineveh, and postulated the name "Succoth-benoth" was a Hebrew rendition of a Neo-Babylonian or Neo-Assyrian divine name meaning "the image of Bànitu".
[4][5] Marcus Jastrow proposed that the phrase is native to Hebrew and should be read "covering the young".