²⁷ Now the temple was crowded with men and women; all the rulers of the Philistines were there, and on the roof^(A) were about three thousand men and women watching Samson perform.

⁸ When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.^(A)

² One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof^(A) of the palace. From the roof he saw^(B) a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful,

⁸ Before the spies lay down for the night, she went up on the roof^(A)

⁵¹ Inside the city, however, was a strong tower, to which all the men and women—all the people of the city—had fled. They had locked themselves in and climbed up on the tower roof.