'Roof' in the Bible
You are to make a roof, finishing the sides of the ark to within 18 inches of the roof. You are to put a door in the side of the ark. Make it with lower, middle, and upper decks.
Look, I’ve got two daughters who haven’t had sexual relations with a man. I’ll bring them out to you, and you can do whatever you want to them. However, don’t do anything to these men, because they have come under the protection of my roof.”
If you build a new house, make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.
There was a strong tower inside the city, and all the men, women, and lords of the city fled there. They locked themselves in and went up to the roof of the tower.
The temple was full of men and women; all the leaders of the Philistines were there, and about 3,000 men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.
Afterward, they went down from the high place to the city, and Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.
They got up early, and just before dawn, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, and I’ll send you on your way!” Saul got up, and both he and Samuel went outside.
One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.
So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
David was sitting between the two gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the gate and over to the wall. The watchman looked out and saw a man running alone.
The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
The noblemen’s voices were hushed,and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
My strength is dried up like baked clay;my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.You put me into the dust of death.
May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouthif I do not remember you,if I do not exalt Jerusalem as my greatest joy!
Better to live on the corner of a roofthan to share a house with a nagging wife.
Better to live on the corner of a roofthan to share a house with a nagging wife.
Because of laziness the roof caves in,and because of negligent hands the house leaks.
ד DaletThe nursing infant’s tongueclings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.Little children beg for bread,but no one gives them any.
I will make your tongue stick to the roof of your mouth, and you will be mute and unable to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house.
Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43¾ feet. The openings of the recesses faced each other.
At the end of 12 months, as he was walking on the roof of the royal palace in Babylon,