Judges 16:27
Hebrew Text— Judges 16:27Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed.
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When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
He raised up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.
Before they had lain down, she came up to them on the roof.
At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.
“I made a covenant with my eyes, how then should I look lustfully at a young woman?
The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
The houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, will 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.” ’ ”
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
When they could not come near to him for the crowd, they removed the roof where he was. When they had broken it up, they let down the mat that the paralytic was lying on.
Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.
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.
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 some of its fruit, and ate. Then she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.
God’s sons saw that men’s daughters were beautiful, and they took any that they wanted for themselves as wives.
When he had come near to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “See now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look at.
Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her. He took her, lay with her, and humbled her.
There, Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite man named Shua. He took her, and went in to her.
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.
“If fire breaks out, and catches in thorns so that the shocks of grain, or the standing grain, or the field are consumed; he who kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.
But she had brought them up to the roof, and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order on the roof.
When I saw among the plunder a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it.”
But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the men and women of the city fled there, and shut themselves in, and went up to the roof of the tower.
Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went and came at about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, as he took his rest at noon.
Now when they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, beheaded him, and took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night.
After this, Absalom the son of David had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.
So they spread a tent for Absalom on the top of the house, and Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
Jehu sent through all Israel; and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a man left that didn’t come. They came into the house of Baal; and the house of Baal was filled from one end to another.
All the people of the land went to the house of Baal, and broke it down. They broke his altars and his images in pieces thoroughly, and killed Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. The priest appointed officers over Yahweh’s house.
The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of Yahweh’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.
Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.
Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep. The idle soul shall suffer hunger.
Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.
In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
As soon as she saw them, she lusted after them and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.
I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat; and I will execute judgment on them there for my people, and for my heritage, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations. They have divided my land,
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
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.
He gathered them together into the place which is called in Hebrew, “Megiddo”.
When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; that wicked man will die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.
Therefore let’s not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother’s way, or an occasion for falling.
Give no occasion for stumbling, whether to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
so that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense to the day of Christ,
Abstain from every form of evil.