Nehemiah 8:14

Overview - Nehemiah 8
The religious manner of reading and hearing the law.
They comfort the people.
13 The forwardness of them to hear and be instructed.
16 They keep the feast of tabernacles.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Nehemiah 8:14  (King James Version)
And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:
 


by
Hebrew by the hand of. dwell.
Leviticus 23:34 Leviticus 23:40-43 ; Deuteronomy 16:13-15 ; Zechariah 14:16-19 ; John 7:2

booths
Genesis 33:17

the feast
That is, the feast of tabernacles, which was held in the month {Tisri,} the seventh of the ecclesiastical year, in
commemoration of the sojourning of the Israelites in the wilderness after they had been delivered from Egyptian bondage For other particulars see the parallel passages.