SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:16
Saliķ, pues, el pueblo, y trajeron, y se hicieron cabaņas, cada uno sobre su terrado, y en sus patios, y en los patios de la Casa de Dios, y en la plaza de la puerta de las Aguas, y en la plaza de la puerta de Efraín.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Nehemiah 8:16
Verse 16. Upon the roof of his house] It need scarcely be repeated, that the houses in the East are generally built with flat roofs. On these they reposed; on these they took the air in the heats of summer; and on these they oftentimes slept.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. So the people went forth, and brought them , etc.] Went out of Jerusalem to the mountains adjacent, and fetched in branches of the said trees, one or another: and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house ; which were flat, ( Deuteronomy 22:8), and they might be made anywhere, so be it they were open to the air: and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God; the common people in the courtyards belonging to their houses, and the priests and Levites in the courts of the temple, the yards or open places adjoining to them: and in the street of the watergate ; which led to that, and seems to have been a very large street, in which many booths might be built, ( Nehemiah 3:26 8:3) and in the street of the gate of Ephraim ; which led to the gate through which the road lay to the tribe of Ephraim, (see 2 Kings 14:13), none were erected without the walls of the city, for fear of the enemy.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-18 - They found written in the law about the feast of tabernacles. Those wh diligently search the Scriptures, find things written there which the have forgotten. This feast of tabernacles was a representation of the believer's tabernacle state in this world, and a type of the holy jo of the gospel church. The conversion of the nations to the faith of Christ, is foretold under the figure of this feast, Zec 14:16. Tru religion will render us strangers and pilgrims upon earth. We read an hear the word acceptably and profitably, when we do according to what is written therein; when what appears to be our duty is revived, afte it has been neglected. They minded the substance; else the ceremony ha been of no use. They did it, rejoicing in God and his goodness. Thes are the means which the Spirit of God crowns with success, in bringin the hearts of sinners to tremble and to become humbled before God. But those are enemies to their own growth in holiness, who always indulg sorrow, even for sin, and put away from them the consolations tendere by the word and Spirit of God __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויצאו 3318 העם 5971 ויביאו 935 ויעשׂו 6213 להם 1992 סכות 5521 אישׁ 376 על 5921 גגו 1406 ובחצרתיהם 2691 ובחצרות 2691 בית 1004 האלהים 430 וברחוב 7339 שׁער 8179 המים 4325 וברחוב 7339 שׁער 8179 אפרים׃ 669
