Nehemias 8:16

Filipino Cebuano Bible

16 Busa ang katawohan nangadto, ug nanagdala niini, ug nanagbuhat sa mga payag nga ilang kaugalingon, ang tagsatagsa sa atop sa iyang balay, ug sa ilang mga sawang, sa mga sawang sa balay sa Dios, ug sa halapad nga dapit sa ganghaan sa tubig, ug sa halapad nga dapit sa ganghaan ni Ephraim.

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

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.