Later text
Acts 10:9BSB
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.
Intertextuality Pair
Acts 10:9 → 2 Kings 23:12
Echo
Earlier text
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
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Earlier text
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
Earlier text
The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
Earlier text
Daniel 6:10BSB
Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.
Significance
"Peter went up on the roof to pray" (Acts 10:9). The flat roof of an eastern house served as a place set apart for prayer and, in Israel's apostasy, even for illicit worship — Josiah pulled down "the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof" (2 Kings 23:12), and the prophets condemned those who worshiped the host of heaven on the rooftops (Jeremiah 19:13; Zephaniah 1:5). The same elevated, private place could be turned to true devotion, as here. The detail is incidental to the narrative's freight, yet Luke's point is that God meets Peter at prayer: it is in this ordinary posture of dependence, on an ordinary rooftop, that heaven opens and the barrier between Jew and Gentile is torn down. The connection is a shared cultural setting rather than a theological trajectory.
- Found via
- G.K. Beale and D.A. Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament
- Reference Type
- Echo
- Connection Method(s)
- None