Acts 10:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:

Acts 10:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 1:5
And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that swear by Malcham;
Psalms 55:17
Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud: and he shall hear my voice.
Acts 10:8-32
And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa. …
Mark 6:46
And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.
Matthew 27:45
Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-18)

Cornelius had received positive orders from heaven to send for Peter, whom otherwise he had not heard of, or at least not heeded; but here is another difficulty that lies in the way of bringing them together—the question is whether Peter will come to Cornelius when he is sent for; not as if he thought it below him to come at a beck, or as if he were afraid to preach his doctrine to a polite man as…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

9-16. upon the housetop--the flat roof, the chosen place in the East for cool retirement. the sixth hour--noon.