| Deuteronomy 22:8
| When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip and fall down headlong.
| Battlement. This precaution was necessary, because all their houses had flat tops; and it was usual to walk and to converse together upon them. (Challoner) --- King Ochozias had the misfortune to fall from the top of his house, (4 Kings 1:2,) and David saw Bethsabee when he was walking on the roof of his palace, 2 Kings 11:2. Saul slept at the top of Samuel's house, 1 Kings 9:25. See Josue 2:6., and Matthew 10:27. (Haydock)
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