Matthew 24:17
Good News Translation
Someone who is on the roof of a house must not take the time to go down and get any belongings from the house.

New Revised Standard Version
the one on the housetop must not go down to take what is in the house;

Contemporary English Version
If you are on the roof of your house, don't go inside to get anything.

New American Bible
a person on the housetop must not go down to get things out of his house,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house:

which.

Matthew 6:25 Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?

Job 2:4 And Satan answered, and said: Skin for skin; and all that a man hath, he will give for his life:

Proverbs 6:4,5 Deliver thyself as a doe from the hand, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler. . . .

Mark 13:15,16 And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house nor enter therein to take any thing out of the house. . . .

Luke 17:31-33 In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back. . . .

the house-top.

Matthew 10:27 That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

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.

Context
The Abomination of Desolation
16Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains: 17And he that is on the housetop, let him not come down to take any thing out of his house: 18And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 9:25
And they went down from the high place into the town, and he spoke with Saul upon the top of the house: and he prepared a bed for Saul on the top of the house and he slept.

2 Samuel 11:2
In the mean time it happened that David arose from his bed after noon, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: And he saw from the roof of his house a woman washing herself, over against him: and the woman was very beautiful.

Matthew 10:27
That which I tell you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you hear in the ear, preach ye upon the housetops.

Matthew 24:16
Then they that are in Judea, let them flee to the mountains:

Matthew 24:18
And he that is in the field, let him not go back to take his coat.

Luke 5:19
And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in, because of the multitude, they went up upon the roof and let him down through the tiles with his bed into the midst before Jesus.

Luke 12:3
For whatsoever things you have spoken in darkness shall be published in the light: and that which you have spoken in the ear in the chambers shall be preached on the housetops.

Luke 17:31
In that hour, he that shall be on the housetop, and his goods in the house, let him not go down to take them away: and he that shall be in the field, in like manner, let him not return back.

Acts 10:9
And on the next day, whilst they were going on their journey and drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up to the higher parts of the house to pray, about the sixth hour.

Matthew 24:16
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