2 Samuel 11:2

Restless on his roof one evening, David sees a beautiful woman bathing. The temptation begins with an unguarded look.

Cross-references · 22

• Matt 5:28But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
• Ps 119:37Turn my eyes away from worthless things; revive me with Your word.
• 1 Jn 2:16For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world.
• Acts 10:9The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.
• Prov 6:25Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes.
• Job 31:1“I have made a covenant with my eyes. How then could I gaze with desire at a virgin?
• 1 Pet 4:7The end of all things is near. Therefore be clear-minded and sober, so that you can pray.
• Gen 3:6When the woman saw that the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eyes, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom, she took the fruit and ate it. She also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate it.
• Prov 31:30Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.
• 1 Th 5:6–7So then, let us not sleep as the others do, but let us remain awake and sober.
• Deut 22:8If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
• Jer 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
• Matt 26:40–41Then Jesus returned to the disciples and found them sleeping. “Were you not able to keep watch with Me for one hour?” He asked Peter.
• Prov 24:33–34A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
• Gen 6:2the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful, and they took as wives whomever they chose.
• Prov 19:15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.
• 2 Sam 4:7They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was lying on his bed, and having stabbed and killed him, they beheaded him, took his head, and traveled all night by way of the Arabah.
• Gen 34:2When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.
• Matt 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
• Gen 39:6So Potiphar left all that he owned in Joseph’s care; he did not concern himself with anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well-built and handsome,
• 2 Sam 4:5Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap.
• 1 Sam 9:25And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.

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