And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.
Parallel translations
- WEB When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
- BSB And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.
- NKJV When they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the top of the house.
- NASB When they came down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof.
- NLT When they came down from the place of worship and returned to town, Samuel took Saul up to the roof of the house and prepared a bed for him there.
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Quick answer
After the meal they return to the city, and Samuel talks with Saul on the rooftop.
Overview
The private rooftop conversation suggests Samuel is preparing Saul for what lies ahead. Such a setting allowed for quiet, personal instruction. The narrative moves toward the intimate moment of Saul's anointing.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Deut 22:8When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
- Acts 10:9On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
- 2 Sam 11:2And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
- Neh 8:16So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.
- Jer 19:13And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
- Matt 10:27What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
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The rise of the anointed king after Israel's failed first choice points to the true Anointed One (Messiah means 'anointed'), the shepherd-king after God's own heart from Bethlehem.
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