The whole assembly that had returned from exile made booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated like this. And there was great rejoicing.
We have here, I. The people's renewed attendance upon the word. They had spent the greatest part of one day in praying and hearing, and yet were so far from being weary of that new moon and sabbath that the next day after, though it was no festival, the chief of them came together again to hear Ezra expound (Neh 8:13), which they found more...
Commenting on Nehemiah 8:13-18
And all the congregation of them that were come again out of captivity made booths,.... These came to Jerusalem, and made them booths there; for there only was this feast kept, see Joh 7:2, and sat under the booths; there they dwelt during the seven days of it, in commemoration of their ancestors dwelling in booths in the wilderness, see Lev 23:42 for since the...
THEY KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. (Neh 8:16-18) the people went forth, and brought . . . and made themselves booths, &c.--(See on Lev 23:34; Deu 16:13).
Commenting on Nehemiah 8:16-18