2 Samuel 11:2

English Standard Version 2016

It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on the roof of the king’s house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

Cross References

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.

Acts 10:9

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray.

Proverbs 6:25

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

Deuteronomy 22:8

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

Genesis 3:6

So 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 of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the dark, say in the light, and what you hear whispered, proclaim on the housetops.

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses on whose roofs offerings have been offered to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’”

Proverbs 19:15

Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.

2 Samuel 4:7

When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and put him to death and beheaded him. They took his head and went by the way of the Arabah all night,

Genesis 34:2

And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.

2 Samuel 4:5

Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest.

1 Samuel 9:25

And when they came down from the high place into the city, a bed was spread for Saul on the roof, and he lay down to sleep.

Genesis 39:6

So he left all that he had in Joseph’s charge, and because of him he had no concern about anything but the food he ate. Now Joseph was handsome in form and appearance.

Matthew 24:17

Let the one who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,

Genesis 12:11

When he was about to enter Egypt, he said to Sarai his wife, “I know that you are a woman beautiful in appearance,

Deuteronomy 5:21

“‘And you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. And you shall not desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.’

2 Samuel 13:1

Now Absalom, David’s son, had a beautiful sister, whose name was Tamar. And after a time Amnon, David’s son, loved her.

2 Samuel 14:27

There were born to Absalom three sons, and one daughter whose name was Tamar. She was a beautiful woman.

Proverbs 7:8

passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house