House: Architecture of Roofs, Flat

(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)

Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

And after they had come down from the high place into the city, Samuel spoke with Saul on the roof of his house.

One evening David got up from his bed and strolled around on the roof of the palace. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing—a very beautiful woman.

So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, and he slept with his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his house.

What you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the housetops.