Neh 8:16

“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.”