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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Succothbenoth
A god the settlers from Babylon brought with them to Samaria, after the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom.
A god the settlers from Babylon brought with them to Samaria, after the Assyrians conquered the northern kingdom.
Succoth-benoth was a deity brought to Samaria by colonists from Babylon whom the Assyrians resettled there after conquering the northern kingdom of Israel, part of a patchwork of foreign gods the new population continued worshiping alongside a token fear of the Lord (2 Kings 17:24-30). Scholars generally identify the name with a garbled Hebrew rendering of Zarpanitu, the Babylonian goddess who was consort to the chief god Marduk.
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- 2 Kings 17:30
