Verse 2

Now one evening, David got up from his bed, and while he was walking on the roof of the king's house, he saw from there a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 22:8 : 8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?
  • Acts 10:9 : 9 Now the day after, when they were on their journey and were near the town, Peter went up to the top of the house for prayer, about the sixth hour:
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 But I say to you that everyone whose eyes are turned on a woman with desire has had connection with her in his heart.
  • Matt 10:27 : 27 What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 And he comes to the disciples, and sees that they are sleeping, and says to Peter, What, were you not able to keep watch with me one hour? 41 Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test: the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.
  • 1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 So then, let us not take our rest as the others do, but let us be self-controlled and awake. 7 For those who are sleeping do so in the night; and those who are the worse for drink are so in the night;
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.
  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep: 34 So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.
  • Jer 19:13 : 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.
  • 1 Sam 9:25 : 25 And when they had come down from the high place into the town, where a bed was made ready for Saul, he went to rest.
  • 2 Sam 4:5 : 5 And Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, went out and came to the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, when he was resting in the middle of the day. Now the woman who kept the door was cleaning grain, and sleep overcame her.
  • 2 Sam 4:7 : 7 And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and a delight to the eyes, and to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and gave it to her husband.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took wives for themselves from those who were pleasing to them.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 And when Shechem, the son of Hamor the Hivite who was the chief of that land, saw her, he took her by force and had connection with her.
  • Gen 39:6 : 6 And he gave Joseph control of all his property, keeping no account of anything, but only the food which was put before him. Now Joseph was very beautiful in form and face.