Verse 2

It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 22:8 : 8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
  • Job 31:1 : 1 "I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
  • Acts 10:9 : 9 Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.
  • Matt 5:28 : 28 but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
  • Matt 10:27 : 27 What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
  • Matt 26:40-41 : 40 He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour? 41 Watch and pray, that you don't enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
  • 1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 so then let's not sleep, as the rest do, but let's watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep in the night, and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.
  • 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.
  • Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Prov 6:25 : 25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
  • Prov 19:15 : 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
  • Prov 24:33-34 : 33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 so your poverty will come as a robber, and your want as an armed man.
  • Prov 31:30 : 30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
  • Jer 19:13 : 13 and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the army of the sky, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
  • 1 Sam 9:25 : 25 When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
  • 2 Sam 4:5 : 5 The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
  • 2 Sam 4:7 : 7 Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, and killed him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
  • Gen 3:6 : 6 When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
  • Gen 6:2 : 2 that God's sons saw that men's daughters were beautiful, and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
  • Gen 34:2 : 2 Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
  • Gen 39:6 : 6 He left all that he had in Joseph's hand. He didn't concern himself with anything, except for the food which he ate. Joseph was well-built and handsome.