Matthew 24:17 “Let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve anything from his hou…”

Matthew 24:17

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:

World English Bible

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

American Standard Version

let him that is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house:

Geneva Bible 1599

Let him which is on the house top, not come downe to fetch any thing out of his house.

Darby Translation

let not him that is on the house come down to take the things out of his house;

Young's Literal Translation

he on the house-top — let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

Bible in Basic English

Let not him who is on the house-top go down to take anything out of his house:

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Cross references

“which”

Luke 17:31–33 Matthew 6:25 Job 2:4 Proverbs 6:4 Proverbs 6:5 Mark 13:15

Luke 17:31–33 · BSB

On that day, let no one on the housetop come down to retrieve his possessions. Likewise, let no one in the field return for anything he has left behind.

Matthew 6:25 · BSB

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?

Job 2:4 · BSB

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

Proverbs 6:4 · BSB

Allow no sleep to your eyes or slumber to your eyelids.

Proverbs 6:5 · BSB

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Mark 13:15 · BSB

Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house.

“the house-top”

Matthew 10:27 Deuteronomy 22:8

Matthew 10:27 · BSB

What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.

Deuteronomy 22:8 · BSB

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Also

Acts 10:9 Luke 12:3 1 Samuel 9:25 Luke 5:19

Acts 10:9 · BSB

The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray.

Luke 12:3 · BSB

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.

1 Samuel 9:25 · BSB

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

Luke 5:19 · BSB

but they could not find a way through the crowd. So they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

18And let no one in the field return for his cloak.

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