Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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.

New American Standard Bible

When they came down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

King James Version

And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

Holman Bible

Afterward, they went down from the high place to the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

International Standard Version

When they had come down from the high place into town, Samuel spoke to Saul on the roof.

A Conservative Version

And when they came down from the high place into the city, he conversed with Saul upon the housetop.

American Standard Version

And when they were come down from the high place into the city, he communed with Saul upon the housetop.

Amplified

When they came down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof [of his house].

Darby Translation

And they came down from the high place into the city, and he spoke with Saul upon the roof.

Julia Smith Translation

And they will go down from Bamah to the city, and he will speak to Saul upon the roof.

King James 2000

And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel talked with Saul upon the top of the house.

Lexham Expanded Bible

When they came down from the high place to the town, he spoke with Saul on the roof.

Modern King James verseion

And they came down from the high place into the city, and he spoke with Saul on the top of the house.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And when they were come down from the hill unto the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house:

NET Bible

When they came down from the high place to the town, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.

New Heart English Bible

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

The Emphasized Bible

And, when they had come down from the high place into the city, he spread a couch for Saul upon the house-top, and he lay down.

Webster

And when they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

World English Bible

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

Youngs Literal Translation

And they come down from the high place to the city, and he speaketh with Saul on the roof.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

בּמה 
Bamah 
Usage: 103

into the city
עיר ער עיר 
`iyr 
Usage: 1094

דּבר 
Dabar 
Usage: 1142

with Saul
שׁאוּל 
Sha'uwl 
Usage: 406

References

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Context Readings

Saul Seeks Samuel's Advice

24 And the cook took up the leg with the fat tail on it, and put it before Saul. And Samuel said, This is the part which has been kept for you: take it as your part of the feast; because it has been kept for you till the right time came and till the guests were present. So that day Saul took food with Samuel. 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. 26 And about dawn Samuel said to Saul on the roof, Get up so that I may send you away. So Saul got up, and he and Samuel went out together.



Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8

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.

Acts 10:9

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:

2 Samuel 11:2

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.

Nehemiah 8:16

And the people went out and got them and made themselves tents, every one on the roof of his house, and in the open spaces and in the open squares of the house of God, and in the wide place of the water-doorway, and the wide place of the doorway of Ephraim.

Jeremiah 19:13

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.

Matthew 10:27

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.

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