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THE USES OF THE SUCCAH (Booth)
The succah was constructed from trees and bushes whose branches were joined together to form a protective roof against the heat of the sun. Its uses during the biblical period were numerous, but its function was always that of a temporary structure. The booths were the homes of the desert nomads, as in Leviticus:
I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. (Leviticus 23:43)
They served as shelters for livestock in the pastures, as we find in the narrative of Jacob who journeyed to Succoth in Genesis:
…and built him an house, and made booths for his cattle. (Genesis 33:17)
They were also used as living quarters for soldiers in the battlefield, as Uriah the Hittite explains to David during the siege of Rabbath-ammon in II Samuel 11:11:
The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents [succoth]; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields.…(II Samuel 11:11)
and in the siege of Samaria by King Ben-hadad of Aram in I Kings (I Kgs 20:12, 20:16). The booths were also the lairs of wild animals in the forest, as in Psalm 10:
He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den [succah].… (Psalms 10:9)
or in Job:
Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? or fill the appetite of the young lions,
When they crouch in their dens, and abide in the covert [succah] to lie in wait? (Job 38:39–40)
Finally, they were used by man, as is narrated of Jonah:
…and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth [succah], and sat under it in the shadow.… (Jonah 4:5)
while the most important use of the succah was during the Feast of Tabernacles, or Succoth, when the Israelites dwelt in it for seven days. This festival is one of the three important agricultural feasts of the Jewish people.

SAUL’S EARLY YEARS
Born and reared as Saul from Tarsus, the largest city in Rome’s gateway province of Cilicia (Acts 9:11; 22:3), the Apostle Paul was the bridge that carried belief in Jesus as Messiah from a Jerusalem based Judaism to Gentiles living in “the uttermost parts of the earth” (Acts 1:8; cf. Rom 11:17–24). The world has never been the same for his efforts.

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The mountainous nature of the Holy Land terrain dictates the courses of the roads. The principal international route connecting Egypt with North Syria and Mesopotamia transverses the Southern Levant from south to north, following the line of the seacoast in the south until reaching the barrier of Nahal Kanah (Nahr el-"Auja) where it had to swerve eastward to go around Aphek.

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As the cycle of seasons continues, every period has its own importance in the cycle of life. Today, we refer to the four seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall, but in some parts of the world, it was not always so...

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𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝: 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐲𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠…𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑂𝑅𝐷 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐿𝑂𝑅𝐷 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝐺𝑜𝑑 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑡, 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟.
(Deuteronomy 11:11–12)

The passage of time over the course of a year in the ancient Near East was marked by the natural cycle of seasons and their proper agricultural activities. In Egypt, the year was tied to the rise and fall of the floodwaters of the Nile which brought renewed topsoil and water for irrigation to the river’s narrow basin. Ancient Egypt’s three seasons were 𝑎𝑘ℎ𝑒𝑡, “inundation,” 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑡, “emergence,” and 𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑚𝑢, “dryness.” The yearly calendar in Mesopotamia was tied to the annual rainy season / dry season sequence and the agricultural activities that took place in each. The Canaanites, indigenous inhabitants of the Levant, arranged their calendar like that of Mesopotamia, since their land, too, experienced an annual cycle of wet and dry months. A tenth century BC text found at Gezer reckons their year as beginning with the ingathering of the late summer fruit (olives) in late fall. This coincides with the expectation of the early (autumn) rains.

𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠: 𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 [𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡–𝑂𝑐𝑡—𝑂𝑐𝑡–𝑁𝑜𝑣]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠: 𝑠𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 [𝑁𝑜𝑣–𝐷𝑒𝑐—𝐷𝑒𝑐–𝐽𝑎𝑛]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠: 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 [𝐽𝑎𝑛–𝐹𝑒𝑏—𝐹𝑒𝑏–𝑀𝑎𝑟]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ: 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑥 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 [𝑀𝑎𝑟–𝐴𝑝𝑟]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ: 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑒𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 [𝐴𝑝𝑟–𝑀𝑎𝑦]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ: [𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡] ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 [𝑀𝑎𝑦–𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠: 𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 [𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑒–𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦—𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦–𝐴𝑢𝑔]
𝐻𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ: 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟 [𝑓𝑟𝑢𝑖𝑡] ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 [𝐴𝑢𝑔–𝑆𝑒𝑝𝑡].

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Dear friends,

Fall has arrived.
It is the time of the year when the seeds we sowed are ready to be harvested.
September and October are the months when we get to enjoy the fruits of our hard work, appreciate what we have collected so far, and gather strength and energy for the winter.

Therefore, we at Biblewhere have decided to dedicate our posts of the next two months to this wonderful time of the year, and let you experience some of the wisdom the Holy Bible shares with us regarding this time.

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𝐀 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠

“𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 (𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬)”
𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘 13:24-30

“𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐬 (𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐬)”
𝑳𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒖𝒎 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒎

𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐥𝐞, 𝐏𝐨𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥
𝑴𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒘 13:24-30

𝐴𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒, 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔: “𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑; 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔, ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑤𝑎𝑦. 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑢𝑝 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚, ‘𝑀𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑑𝑖𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑤 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑙𝑑? 𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠?’ 𝐻𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, ‘𝐴𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠.’ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑖𝑚, ‘𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚?’ 𝐵𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑, ‘𝑁𝑜; 𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑟𝑜𝑜𝑡 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜𝑔𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑔𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑛."

This parable contrasts the “good grass” (the wheat, that is, us) with the “bad grass” (the cockle, that is, other sects, evil men). Jesus is aware of a dialectic in the relationship between these two forces: on one hand, the uprooting of the “evildoers” when they are small can cause an uprooting of the “good grass” which would be bad for us. On the other hand, waiting until the “evildoers” have grown would be at the expense of the “good grass," which would be poisoned as a result.

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐚𝐩𝐬, 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲, 𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐁𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐧𝐝, 𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞: https://www.biblewhere.com/

…thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.”
Deuteronomy 27:3

…they took back with them to the camp of Israel as a specimen of the fruits of the Promised Land.”
Numbers 32:9

The Temple service mandated a steady supply of agricultural produce and livestock brought to Jerusalem from outside its confines.
Map: Carta, Jerusalem

And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days…
Leviticus 23:15-16
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.
Acts 2:1-2

“And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the Lord your God.” (Leviticus 23:22)



“So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her … and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.” (Ruth 1:22)

Joshua's Death and Burial

(Judges 2:8-9)

And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim. . .
The annual commemoration of Joshua's “yahrtzeit” (the anniversary of his death) is marked on the 26th of Nisan on the Hebrew calendar. (corresponding this year to the 30th April 2019.)

The “way of the land of the Philistines” (Ex. 13:7) was too heavily fortified to serve as an escape route for the people of Israel. Instead, they began their trek from Succoth, a known pasturage area for the Shasu Bedouin, to Etham, on the fringe of the wilderness of Shur. Their withdrawal in the face of the pursuing Egyptian was through the marshes east of Baal-zephon, the “sea of Reeds”. Thence, they entered the wilderness of Shur (Ex. 15:22) and evidently headed south. Firm identifications for the remaining stations on their march are difficult since the ancient names have not survived in the Sinai Peninsula. The present state of our knowledge favors a route commensurate with the Byzantine traditions for the location of Mt. Sinai. The location of Kadesh-barnea is well established and provides a focal point for the wanderings during the forty wilderness years.



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