1 Samuel 9:25
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25 When they came down from the shrine into the town, a bed was spread for Saul[a] on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.[b](A)
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Acts 10:9
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9 About noon the next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray.(A)
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Deuteronomy 22:8
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8 “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof; otherwise you might have bloodguilt on your house, if anyone should fall from it.
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Nehemiah 8:16
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16 So the people went out and brought them and made booths[a] for themselves, each on the roofs of their houses, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim.(A)
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- 8.16 Or tabernacles
2 Samuel 11:2
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2 It happened, late one afternoon when David rose from his couch and was walking about on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; the woman was very beautiful.(A)
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Matthew 10:27
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27 What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim from the housetops.
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Jeremiah 19:13
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13 And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah shall be defiled like the place of Topheth—all the houses upon whose roofs offerings have been made to the whole host of heaven and libations have been poured out to other gods.(A)
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