2 Samuel 16:22

16:22 So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof, ¹  and Absalom had sex with ²  his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.

2 Samuel 11:2

11:2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of his palace. ³  From the roof he saw a woman bathing. Now this woman was very attractive. ⁴ 

¹ sn That is, on top of the flat roof of the palace, so it would be visible to the public.

² tn Heb “went to”; NAB “he visited his father’s concubines”; NIV “lay with his father’s concubines”; TEV “went in and had intercourse with.”

³ tn Heb “on the roof of the house of the king.” So also in vv. 8, 9.

⁴ tn The disjunctive clause highlights this observation and builds the tension of the story.