Verse 16
16. Upon the roof of his house Nearly every available place would be used, and those who occupied houses in Jerusalem would find it most convenient to build their booths either on the flat roofs of their houses, or in their courts, the inclosed yards in the rear of their houses.
The courts of the house of God Here the priests and Levites would naturally build their booths, while those persons who were not residents of Jerusalem would make theirs in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim. The open space before the water gate was where all the people assembled to hear the public reading of the law. See on Nehemiah 8:1 and Nehemiah 3:26. The gate of Ephraim was doubtless in the northern wall, opening towards the territory of Ephraim. See on 2 Kings 14:13.
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