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 say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
• Ps 119:37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
• 1 Jn 2:16For 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.
• 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:
• Prov 6:25Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
• Job 31:1I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
• 1 Pet 4:7But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer.
• Gen 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Prov 31:30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
• 1 Th 5:6–7Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
• 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.
• 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 26:40–41And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
• Prov 24:33–34Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
• Gen 6:2That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
• Prov 19:15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
• 2 Sam 4:7For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.
• Gen 34:2And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
• 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.
• Gen 39:6And he left all that he had in Joseph’s hand; and he knew not ought he had, save the bread which he did eat. And Joseph was a goodly person, and well favoured.
• 2 Sam 4:5And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.
• 1 Sam 9:25And when they were come down from the high place into the city, Samuel communed with Saul upon the top of the house.

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