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
When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
2 Samuel 11:2
It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
Jeremiah 19:13
and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
Jeremiah 32:29
and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
The courts
2 Chronicles 20:5
Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Yahweh, before the new court;
2 Chronicles 33:5
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of Yahweh.
The street of the water gate
Nehemiah 8:3
He read therein before the broad place that was before the water gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women, and of those who could understand; and the ears of all the people were [attentive] to the book of the law.
Nehemiah 3:26
(Now the Nethinim lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)
Nehemiah 12:37
By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of the city of David, at the ascent of the wall, above the house of David, even to the water gate eastward.
General references
Leviticus 23:42
You shall dwell in booths seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in booths,
John 7:2
Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.