100 Bible Verses About Sukkot
Bible verses about Sukkot
Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, is more than just a historical event; it's a divinely ordained opportunity to connect with God's provision, protection, and ultimate promise of dwelling with His people. Exploring the scriptures related to Sukkot allows us to grasp the profound symbolism woven into its observance. Through Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and other texts, we uncover the heart of God's desire for intimate relationship and His faithfulness throughout generations. Understanding Sukkot through scripture offers a lens to view our present journey, reminding us of our dependence on God and pointing towards the future kingdom where He will dwell among us forever. Let the verses illuminate your understanding and enrich your spirit.
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Exodus 25:22 (KJV)
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
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And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.
At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.
O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
And ships shall come from the coast of Chittim, and shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber, and he also shall perish for ever.
But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.
And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.
And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baal–peor.
If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the Lord made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water:
These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.
And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda, Solomon’s servant, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even he lifted up his hand against the king.
The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
For thus saith the Lord God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the Lord sendeth rain upon the earth.
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.
Of Zebulun; Eliab the son of Helon.
And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
And Meshobab, and Jamlech, and Joshah the son of Amaziah,
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.
And the Lord spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out.
And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one network, to cover the chapiters that were upon the top, with pomegranates: and so did he for the other chapiter.
And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Beth–el with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;
Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me?
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.
Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.
And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
And the Lord said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them.
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about, and beat at the door, and spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thine house, that we may know him.
For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the Lord in Mizpeh.
And the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all Solomon’s desire which he was pleased to do,
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there abode we in tents three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.
So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
And David cried to the people, and to Abner the son of Ner, saying, Answerest thou not, Abner? Then Abner answered and said, Who art thou that criest to the king?
Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.
And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the Lord said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.
Then will the Lord drive out all these nations from before you, and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:
In that day shall Israel be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:
And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
(For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose.
Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign.
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem, which is Jebus; where the Jebusites were, the inhabitants of the land.
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple of the Lord.
And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
So David brought not the ark home to himself to the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed–edom the Gittite.
The Sukkot verses explored here highlight the festival's multi-faceted significance: a commemoration of God's provision and protection during the Israelites' wilderness wanderings, an acknowledgment of the autumn harvest's bounty, and a prophetic pointer towards a future Messianic age. These scriptures remind us of our dependence on God, not just for physical sustenance, but for spiritual shelter and guidance. As we reflect on these words, consider how we can cultivate a spirit of gratitude for God's blessings, acknowledging His faithfulness throughout our own journeys. Let Sukkot serve as an annual opportunity to step outside our comfortable routines, embrace simplicity, and intentionally remember God's enduring presence, both in the past and in our present lives, while anticipating the ultimate fulfillment of His promises.