Sukkot (place)

This Sukkot is believed by many scholars to be an adaptation of the Egyptian toponym Tjeku,[1] which is located in the eastern Delta.

The identification is based on a passage in the Jerusalem Talmud, which was compiled in the 4th century, in which the biblical Sukkot was identified with a settlement called Dar'ellah.

[2][3] This is where Jacob, on returning from Paddan Aram after a meeting with Esau, built a house for himself and made sukkot (temporary huts, or "booths") for his cattle in Genesis 33:17.

In the Book of Judges, the princes of Sukkot refused to provide help to Gideon and his men when they followed one of the bands of the fugitive Midianites after the great victory at Mount Gilboa.

After routing this band, Gideon, upon his return, visited the rulers of the city with severe punishment according to Judges 8:16: "And he took the elders of the city and, [bringing] desert thorns and briers, he punished the people of Succoth with them."