⁶ Now, she had led them to the roof, and hidden them among her stalks of flax spread out^[a] there.

⁸ Before the spies lay down, Rahab went up to them on the roof

²⁰ Ehud went in to him where he sat alone in his cool upper room. Ehud said, “I have a word from God for you.” So the king rose from his throne. ²¹ Then Ehud with his left hand drew the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into Eglon’s belly. ²² The hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade because he did not withdraw the dagger from the body.

²³ Then Ehud went out onto the porch, shutting the doors of the upper room on Eglon and locking them. ²⁴ When Ehud had left and the servants had come, they saw that the doors of the upper room were locked, and thought, “He must be easing himself in the cool chamber.” ²⁵ They waited until they were at a loss when he did not open the doors of the upper room. So they took the key and opened them, and there was their lord lying on the floor, dead.

²⁵ When they came down from the high place into the city, a mattress was spread for Saul on the roof, ²⁶ and he slept there.

Saul’s Anointing. At daybreak Samuel called to Saul on the roof, “Get up, and I will send you on your way.” Saul got up, and he and Samuel went outside the city together.

² One evening David rose from his bed and strolled about on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof he saw a woman bathing; she was very beautiful.

²² So a tent was pitched on the roof for Absalom, and Absalom went to his father’s concubines in view of all Israel.^(A)

¹⁰ let us arrange a little room on the roof and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp, so that when he comes to us he can stay there.”^(A)

¹² He also demolished the altars made by the kings of Judah on the roof (the roof terrace of Ahaz), and the altars made by Manasseh in the two courts of the Lord’s house. He pulverized them and threw the dust into the Wadi Kidron.^(A)

The Vision of Peter. ^9 [a]The next day, while they were on their way and nearing the city, Peter went up to the roof terrace to pray at about noontime.^[b]