Nehemiah 8:16

New American Bible - revised edition

The people went out and brought in branches with which they made booths for themselves, on the roof of their houses, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares of the Water Gate and the Gate of Ephraim.

Cross References

2 Samuel 11:2

One evening David rose from his bed and strolled about on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; she was very beautiful.

2 Kings 14:13

But Amaziah, king of Judah, son of Joash, son of Ahaziah, was captured by Joash, king of Israel, at Beth-shemesh. When they came to Jerusalem Joash tore down the wall of Jerusalem, from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate, four hundred cubits.

2 Chronicles 20:5

Jehoshaphat stood up in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the Lord before the new court,

2 Chronicles 33:5

and he built altars to the whole host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

Nehemiah 12:37

At the Fountain Gate they went straight up by the steps of the City of David and continued along the top of the wall above the house of David until they came to the Water Gate on the east.

Nehemiah 12:39

then past the Ephraim Gate to the Mishneh Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Hundred Tower, as far as the Sheep Gate. They came to a halt at the Prison Gate.

Nehemiah 3:26

to a point opposite the Water Gate on the east, and the projecting tower.

Nehemiah 8:1

Now when the seventh month came, the whole people gathered as one in the square in front of the Water Gate, and they called upon Ezra the scribe to bring forth the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had commanded for Israel.

Nehemiah 8:3

In the square in front of the Water Gate, Ezra read out of the book from daybreak till midday, in the presence of the men, the women, and those children old enough to understand; and all the people listened attentively to the book of the law.

Jeremiah 19:13

And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth, all the houses upon whose roofs they burnt incense to the whole host of heaven and poured out libations to other gods.

Jeremiah 32:29

The Chaldeans who are attacking this city shall go in and set the city on fire, burning it and the houses, on whose roofs incense was burned to Baal and libations were poured out to other gods in order to provoke me.

Deuteronomy 22:8

When you build a new house, put a parapet around the roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt upon your house if someone falls off.