尼希米记 8:16

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

於是眾民出去，把樹枝帶回來，各人在自己的房頂上，在院子裡，　神的院中，水門的廣場，或是在以法蓮門的廣場搭棚。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
於 是 百 姓 出 去 ， 取 了 树 枝 来 ， 各 人 在 自 己 的 房 顶 上 ， 或 院 内 ， 或 　 神 殿 的 院 内 ， 或 水 门 的 宽 阔 处 ， 或 以 法 莲 门 的 宽 阔 处 搭 棚 。

Contextual Overview

¹³ On the second day of the month, the leaders of all the families, the priests, and the Levites met with Ezra the teacher. They gathered to study the words of the Teachings. ¹⁴ This is what they found written in the Teachings: The Lord commanded through Moses that the people of Israel were to live in shelters during the feast of the seventh month. ¹⁵ The people were supposed to preach this message and spread it through all their towns and in Jerusalem: "Go out into the mountains, and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, myrtle trees, palms, and shade trees. Make shelters with them, as it is written." ¹⁶ So the people went out and got tree branches. They built shelters on their roofs, in their courtyards, in the courtyards of the Temple, in the square by the Water Gate, and in the square next to the Gate of Ephraim. ¹⁷ The whole group that had come back from captivity built shelters and lived in them. The Israelites had not done this since the time of Joshua son of Nun. And they were very happy. ¹⁸ Ezra read to them every day from the Book of the Teachings, from the first day to the last. The people of Israel celebrated the feast for seven days, and then on the eighth day the people gathered as the law said.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the roof: Deuteronomy 22:8, 2 Samuel 11:2, Jeremiah 19:13, Jeremiah 32:29

the courts: 2 Chronicles 20:5, 2 Chronicles 33:5

the street of the water gate: Nehemiah 8:3, Nehemiah 3:26, Nehemiah 12:37

gate of Ephraim: Nehemiah 12:37, Nehemiah 12:39, 2 Kings 14:13

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 9:25 - the top 2 Chronicles 25:23 - gate of Ephraim 2 Chronicles 32:6 - in the street Nehemiah 8:1 - before 1 Corinthians 10:31 - ye eat

Cross-References

Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are the best person among the people of this time, so you and your family can go into the boat.

Genesis 7:7
He and his wife and his sons and their wives went into the boat to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:13
On that same day Noah and his wife, his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives went into the boat.

Genesis 8:16
"You and your wife, your sons, and their wives should go out of the boat.

Genesis 8:18
So Noah went out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.

Joshua 3:17
The priests carried the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord to the middle of the river and stood there on dry ground. They waited there while all the people of Israel walked across the Jordan River on dry land.

Joshua 4:10
The priests carrying the Ark continued standing in the middle of the river until everything was done that the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people, just as Moses had told Joshua. The people hurried across the river.

Psalms 91:11
He has put his angels in charge of you to watch over you wherever you go.

Psalms 121:8
The Lord will guard you as you come and go, both now and forever.

Zechariah 9:11
As for you, because of the blood of the agreement with you I will set your prisoners free from the waterless pit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So the people went forth, and brought them,.... 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

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.