It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
Joshua 2:6 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them under the stalks of flax which she had laid in order there. American Standard Version (1901) But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. Common English Bible But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them under the flax stalks that she had laid out on the roof. Catholic Public Domain Version But she caused the men to ascend to the roof of her house, and she covered them with the stalks of flax that were there. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there. |
It happened at evening, that David arose from off his bed, and walked on the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look on.
The woman took and spread the covering over the well's mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.
Wasn't it told my lord what I did when Izevel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid one hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
for it was so, when Izevel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that `Ovadyah 1 took one hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
But Yehosheva, the daughter of king Yoram, sister of Achazyah, took Yo'ash the son of Achazyah, and stole him away from among the king's sons who were slain, even him and his nurse, [and put them] in the bedchamber; and they hid him from `Atalyah, so that he was not slain;
The woman conceived, and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
The king commanded Yerachme'el the king's son, and Serayah the son of `Azri'el, and Shelemyahu the son of `Avde'el, to take Barukh the scribe and Yirmeyahu the prophet; but the LORD hid them.
Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.
When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.
By faith, Moshe, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that he was a beautiful child, and they were not afraid of the king's mitzvah.
In like manner wasn't Rachav the prostitute also justified by works, in that she received the messengers, and sent them out another way?
and it happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; where the men went I don't know: pursue after them quickly; for you will overtake them.
The men pursued after them the way to the Yarden to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
But Rachav the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did Yehoshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Yisra'el to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yericho.