John Gill, on Neh 8:16

“And the people went forth, and brought. And they made themselves tabernacles every man on the top of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.”

“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, Deu 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, Neh 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 Kg2 14:13, none were erected without the walls of the city, for fear of the enemy.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.