⁸ “When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if anyone should fall from it.

² It happened, late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking on ^(A)the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful.

²² So they pitched a tent for Absalom ^(A)on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father's concubines ^(B)in the sight of all Israel.

¹⁶ So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each ^(A)on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at ^(B)the Water Gate and in the square at ^(C)the Gate of Ephraim.

^17 (A)Let the one who is on ^(B)the housetop not go down to take what is in his house,