Building Battlements
F. W. Lewis. Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood on your house… Many are building homes which immortal souls are filling. Are the homes made safe? 1. Our homes ought to have every moral and spiritual safeguard that God's Word and the best experience suggests. 2. The guards are most needed where there are pleasant places, the heights from which it is so easy to fall. 3. When evil comes through neglect of these safeguards, the builder's soul is stained with blood. Builder of a home, do your duty, let not the blood of dear ones stain your soul. (F. W. Lewis.) Parallel Verses KJV: When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence. WEB: When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you don't bring blood on your house, if any man fall from there.