2 Samuel 11:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 12:11

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

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, and he ate.

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 humbled her.

Genesis 39:6

So he left all that he had in Joseph's charge; and having him he had no concern for anything but the food which he ate. Now Joseph was handsome and good-looking.

Genesis 6:2

the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose.

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.

2 Samuel 4:5

Now the sons of Rimmon the Be-erothite, 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.

2 Samuel 4:7

When they came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him. They took his head, and went by the way of the Arabah all night,

Job 31:1

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin?

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes from looking at vanities; and give me life in thy ways.

Proverbs 19:15

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

Proverbs 31:30

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

Proverbs 6:25

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

Proverbs 7:8

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

Jeremiah 19:13

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

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the dark, utter in the light; and what you hear whispered, proclaim upon the housetops.

Matthew 24:17

let him who is on the housetop not go down to take what is in his house;

Matthew 5:28

But I say to you that every one who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Acts 10:9

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

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 any one fall from it.

Deuteronomy 5:21

“ ‘Neither shall you covet your neighbor's wife; and you shall not desire your neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor's.’

1 Peter 4:7

The end of all things is at hand; therefore keep sane and sober for your prayers.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world.

1 Samuel 9:25

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