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SUCCOTH-BENOTH (2Ki_17:30).—A deity whose image was made and set up in Samaria by the colonists from Babylon. ‘Benoth’ (LXX [Note: Septuagint.] Banith) suggests ‘Banitu’ as it appears in the name Zarpanîtu—in the inscriptions Zer-banitu—the wife of Marduk, patron god of Babylon. But there is no certainty. Sayce (in Hastings’ DB [Note: Dictionary of the Bible.] ) suggests that ‘Succoth’ may denote the ‘processional shrines’ in which the images were carried, ‘Benoth’ being corrupted from Belith or Betit, the classical Beltis, a common title and synonym of Zer-banîtu.
W. Ewing.