19 Verses About Housetop from 11 Books

1_Samuel 9:25

When they had come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.

1_Samuel 9:26

They arose early: and it happened about the spring of the day, that Samuel called to Saul on the housetop, saying, "Get up, that I may send you away." Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

2_Kings 19:26

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

Acts 10:9

Now on the next day as they were on their journey, and got close to the city, Peter went up on the housetop to pray at about noon.

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 22:1

The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

Isaiah 37:27

Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.



Jeremiah 48:38

On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says the LORD.

Luke 5:19

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the midst before Jesus.

Luke 12:3

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Luke 17:31

In that day, he who will be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away. Let him who is in the field likewise not turn back.

Mark 13:15

and let him who is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house.

Matthew 10:27

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

Matthew 24:17

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.



Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 25:24

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Psalms 102:7

I watch, and have become like a sparrow that is alone on the housetop.

Psalms 129:6

Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

Zephaniah 1:5

those who worship the army of the sky on the housetops, those who worship and swear by the LORD and also swear by Malcam,





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