Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof 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.
The courts
The street of the water gate
General references
Bible References
The roof
Deuteronomy 22:8
If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.
2 Samuel 11:2
Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.
Jeremiah 19:13
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
Jeremiah 32:29
And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
The courts
2 Chronicles 20:5
And Jehoshaphat took his place in the meeting of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord in front of the new open space,
2 Chronicles 33:5
And he made altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.
The street of the water gate
Nehemiah 8:3
He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.
Nehemiah 3:26
(Now the Nethinim were living in the Ophel, as far as the place facing the water doorway to the east, and the tower which comes out.)
Nehemiah 12:37
And by the doorway of the fountain and straight in front of them, they went up by the steps of the town of David, at the slope up of the wall, over the house of David, as far as the water-doorway to the east.
General references
Leviticus 23:42
For seven days you will be living in tents; all those who are Israelites by birth are to make tents their living-places:
John 7:2
But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.