Lexicon :: Strong's H5521 - sukâ

but Jacob went to Succoth. He built a house for himself and shelters for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.[fn]

“Tell the Israelites: The Festival of Shelters[fn] to the LORD begins on the fifteenth day of this seventh month and continues for seven days.

“You are to live in shelters for seven days. All the native-born of Israel must live in shelters,

“You are to celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days when you have gathered in everything from your threshing floor and winepress.

“All your males are to appear three times a year before the LORD your God in the place he chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one is to appear before the LORD empty-handed.

Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of debt cancellation, during the Festival of Shelters,

Uriah answered David, “The ark, Israel, and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers[fn] are camping in the open field. How can I enter my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live and by your life, I will not do this! ”

He made darkness a canopy around him,

a gathering[fn] of water and thick clouds.

When Ben-hadad heard this response, while he and the kings were drinking in their quarters,[fn] he said to his servants, “Take your positions.” So they took their positions against the city.

They marched out at noon while Ben-hadad and the thirty-two kings who were helping him were getting drunk in their quarters.

He followed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed festivals: the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters.

They celebrated the Festival of Shelters as prescribed, and offered burnt offerings each day, based on the number specified by ordinance for each festival day.

They found written in the law how the LORD had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should dwell in shelters during the festival of the seventh month.

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon

or a shelter set up by a watchman.

Can anyone understand how the clouds spread out

or how the thunder roars from God’s pavilion?

when they crouch in their dens

and lie in wait within their lairs?

He made darkness his hiding place,

dark storm clouds his canopy around him.

You hide them in the protection of your presence;

you conceal them in a shelter

from human schemes,

from quarrelsome tongues.

Daughter Zion is abandoned

like a shelter in a vineyard,

like a shack in a cucumber field,

like a besieged city.

and there will be a shelter for shade from heat by day and a refuge and shelter from storm and rain.

In that day

I will restore the fallen shelter of David:

I will repair its gaps,

restore its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old,

Jonah left the city and found a place east of it. He made himself a shelter there and sat in its shade to see what would happen to the city.

Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, and to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.

And if the people[fn] of Egypt will not go up and enter, then rain will not fall on them; this will be the plague the LORD inflicts on the nations who do not go up to celebrate the Festival of Shelters.