What Was the Purpose of Putting a Parapet Around the Jewish Houses? - Conclusion

 The rooftop was also used for worship, both true and idolatrous. (Nehemiah 8:16-18; Jeremiah 19:13) The apostle Peter went up to the rooftop to at noontime to pray. (Acts 10:9-16) If shaded by vines or palm leaves, a housetop must have been a pleasant retreat.  

The work The Land and the Book says that Israelite home had a stairway or ladder to the rooftop. "Outside of the house, but within the exterior court." So a householder  could leave the rooftop without having to enter the house. This may explain Jesus' warning about the urgency of fleeing a doomed city: "Let the man on the housetop not come down to take the goods out of his house." - MATTHEW 24:17.

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