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:
Ver. 14. And they found written in the law] And therefore in nowise to be neglected, since there God had written for them great things, Hosea 8:12; excellent things, Proverbs 22:20; marvellous things, Psalms 119:18. There is a mountain of sense hanging upon every apex or tittle of it, say the Rabbis; who do, therefore, prescribe to their disciples not to write any letter of it but by a copy; not to read it but in a clean place; not to touch it but with the right hand; not to carry it about him but next his heart, &c. (Schickard).
That the children of Israel should dwell in booths] See Ezra 3:4, See Trapp on " Ezr 3:4 " For this the law was dear, Lev 23:34 Deuteronomy 16:13. But this they had not so fully observed, sc. by dwelling in booths, till now that they were returned from Babylon, where they had been lately, and for a long time, strangers. This to profess and set forth was the intent of that least, and of this rite of it, of dwelling in booths or bowers. This is intimated in Nehemiah 8:1 .