Matthew Poole and continuators on Nehemiah 8:16

16 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 watergate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim

For the houses there were made [illegible: 1+ letters]at: of which, see Deut. 22. 8.

Belonging to their own Houses: for these might be any where in the open air.

That gate of the City which led to the Tribe of Ephraim.