Roofs In Scripture

The top of the house or building mostly flat accessible by outside stairs.

Roofs in scripture.

If i prefer not jerusalem above my chief joy. And by a mourning in the streets is signified the vastation of all truths. Behold i will pour out my spirit unto you i will make known my words unto you. Proverbs 1 23 view whole chapter see verse in context turn you at my rep roof.

New king james version. If i do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth. So it makes sense that in the bible roof represents what is inmost in a person the part that is closest and most in contact with the lord. On all the roofs of moab and in the streets thereof all is mourning jer.

Webster s bible translation by much slothfulness the building decayeth. Now david was sitting between the two gates. ג ג h1511 the most frequently used word. The altars which were on the roof the upper chamber of ahaz which the kings of judah had made and the altars which manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the lord the king broke down.

New american standard bible when you build a new house you shall make a parapet for your roof so that you will not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone falls from it. Occasionally pitched roofs occurred. And he smashed them there and threw their dust into the brook kidron. And through idleness of the hands the house leaks.

The roof of a house is its highest point and the part most exposed to the sun. Proverbs 1 25 view whole chapter see verse in context. By a mourning on all the roofs is signified the vastation of all goods with those who in the representative sense are meant by moab namely those who are in natural good who easily suffer themselves to be seduced ac 2468. World english bible by slothfulness the roof sinks in.

And through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through. And through idleness of the hands the house leaketh. Swedenborg also notes that this inmost part is in everyone a love or affection rather than a truth or idea. Isaiah 22 1 verse concepts.

By slothfulness the roof sinketh in. So the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of god and in the street of the water gate and in the street of the gate of ephraim.