STONES

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• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 28:19

  He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• Genesis 28:21

  so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

• Genesis 28:22

  then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

• Genesis 31:45

  Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

• Genesis 31:46

  Jacob said to his relatives, “Gather stones.” They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.

• Genesis 31:47

  Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

• Genesis 31:48

  Laban said, “This heap is witness between me and you today.” Therefore it was named Galeed

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.

• Genesis 31:50

  If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you.”

• Genesis 31:51

  Laban said to Jacob, “See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.

• Genesis 31:52

  May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow remained strong. The arms of his hands were made strong, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, (from there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

• Exodus 24:12

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them.”

• Exodus 28:9

  You shall take two onyx stones, and engrave on them the names of the children of Israel:

• Exodus 28:10

  six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, in the order of their birth.

• Exodus 28:11

  With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, you shall engrave the two stones, according to the names of the children of Israel: you shall make them to be enclosed in settings of gold.

• Exodus 28:12

  You shall put the two stones on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.

• Exodus 28:13

  You shall make settings of gold,

• Exodus 28:14

  and two chains of pure gold; you shall make them like cords of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.

• Exodus 28:15

  “You shall make a breastplate of judgment, the work of the skillful workman; like the work of the ephod you shall make it; of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, you shall make it.

• Exodus 28:16

  It shall be square and folded double; a span shall be its length of it, and a span its width.

• Exodus 28:17

  You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row;

• Exodus 28:18

  and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

• Exodus 28:19

  and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

• Exodus 28:20

  and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

• Exodus 28:21

  The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

• Exodus 31:18

  He gave to Moses, when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with God’s finger.

• Exodus 34:1

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Chisel two stone tablets like the first: and I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

• Exodus 34:2

  Be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai, and present yourself there to me on the top of the mountain.

• Exodus 34:3

  No one shall come up with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain. Do not let the flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain.”

• Exodus 34:4

  He chiseled two tablets of stone like the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up to Mount Sinai, as Yahweh had commanded him, and took in his hand two stone tablets.

• Exodus 35:27

  The rulers brought the onyx stones, and the stones to be set, for the ephod and for the breastplate;

• Exodus 39:6

  They worked the onyx stones, enclosed in settings of gold, engraved with the engravings of a signet, according to the names of the children of Israel.

• Exodus 39:7

  He put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

• Exodus 39:8

  He made the breastplate, the work of a skillful workman, like the work of the ephod; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen.

• Exodus 39:9

  It was square. They made the breastplate double. Its length was a span, and its width a span, being double.

• Exodus 39:10

  They set in it four rows of stones. A row of ruby, topaz, and beryl was the first row;

• Exodus 39:11

  and the second row, a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald;

• Exodus 39:12

  and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst;

• Exodus 39:13

  and the fourth row, a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in gold settings.

• Exodus 39:14

  The stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, for the twelve tribes.

• Leviticus 19:36

  You shall have just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin. I am Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

• Deuteronomy 4:13

  He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments. He wrote them on two stone tablets.

• Deuteronomy 4:28

  There you shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  Yahweh spoke these words to all your assembly on the mountain out of the middle of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice. He added no more. He wrote them on two stone tablets, and gave them to me.

• Deuteronomy 9:9

  When I had gone up onto the mountain to receive the stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant which Yahweh made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I neither ate bread nor drank water.

• Deuteronomy 9:10

  Yahweh delivered to me the two stone tablets written with God’s finger. On them were all the words which Yahweh spoke with you on the mountain out of the middle of the fire in the day of the assembly.

• Deuteronomy 9:11

  It came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Yahweh gave me the two stone tablets, even the tablets of the covenant.

• Deuteronomy 10:1

  At that time Yahweh said to me, “Cut two stone tablets like the first, and come up to me onto the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

• Deuteronomy 10:2

  I will write on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke, and you shall put them in the ark.”

• Deuteronomy 10:3

  So I made an ark of acacia wood, and cut two stone tablets like the first, and went up onto the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.

• Deuteronomy 28:36

  Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you will set over yourselves, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers. There you will serve other gods of wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:64

  Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods, which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 29:17

  and you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them);

• Joshua 4:2

  “Take twelve men out of the people, a man out of every tribe,

• Joshua 4:3

  and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the place where you’ll camp tonight.’”

• Joshua 4:4

  Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe.

• Joshua 4:5

  Joshua said to them, “Cross before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

• Joshua 4:6

  that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’

• Joshua 4:7

  then you shall tell them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant. When it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.’”

• Joshua 4:8

  The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel. They carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.

• Joshua 4:9

  Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

• Joshua 4:20

  Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

• Joshua 4:21

  He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What do these stones mean?’

• Joshua 4:22

  Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

• Joshua 4:23

  For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had crossed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had crossed over;

• Joshua 4:24

  that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’”

• Joshua 8:31

  as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no one had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh and sacrificed peace offerings.

• Joshua 8:32

  He wrote there on the stones a copy of Moses’ law, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 24:25

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

• Judges 20:16

  Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

• 1 Samuel 6:18

  and the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fortified cities and of country villages, even to the great stone, on which they set down Yahweh’s ark. That stone remains to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth Shemesh.

• 1 Samuel 7:12

  Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”

• 1 Samuel 20:19

  When you have stayed three days, go down quickly, and come to the place where you hid yourself when this started, and remain by the stone Ezel.

• 2 Samuel 12:30

  He took the crown of their king from off his head; and its weight was a talent of gold, and in it were precious stones; and it was set on David’s head. He brought a great quantity of plunder out of the city.

• 1 Kings 1:9

  Adonijah killed sheep, cattle, and fatlings by the stone of Zoheleth, which is beside En Rogel; and he called all his brothers, the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah, the king’s servants;

• 1 Kings 5:17

  The king commanded, and they cut out large stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with worked stone.

• 1 Kings 5:18

  Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders and the Gebalites cut them, and prepared the timber and the stones to build the house.

• 1 Kings 6:7

  The house, when it was under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; and no hammer or ax or any tool of iron was heard in the house while it was under construction.

• 1 Kings 6:36

  He built the inner court with three courses of cut stone and a course of cedar beams.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, even of cut stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court.

• 1 Kings 7:10

  The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

• 1 Kings 7:11

  Above were costly stones, even cut stone, according to measure, and cedar wood.

• 1 Kings 7:12

  The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.

• 1 Kings 10:2

  She came to Jerusalem with a very great caravan, with camels that bore spices, very much gold, and precious stones; and when she had come to Solomon, she talked with him about all that was in her heart.

• 1 Kings 10:10

  She gave the king one hundred twenty talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again was there such an abundance of spices as these which the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

• 1 Kings 10:11

  The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir, also brought in from Ophir great quantities of almug trees and precious stones.

• 2 Kings 3:19

  You shall strike every fortified city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all springs of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.’”

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

• 2 Kings 12:12

  and to the masons and the stone cutters, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the damage to Yahweh’s house, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 19:18

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.

• 2 Kings 22:6

  to the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and cut stone to repair the house.

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in slinging stones and in shooting arrows from the bow. They were of Saul’s relatives of the tribe of Benjamin.

• 1 Chronicles 20:2

  David took the crown of their king from off his head, and found it to weigh a talent of gold, and there were precious stones in it. It was set on David’s head, and he brought very much plunder out of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 22:2

  David gave orders to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to cut dressed stones to build God’s house.

• 1 Chronicles 22:15

  There are also workmen with you in abundance, cutters and workers of stone and timber, and all kinds of men who are skillful in every kind of work;

• 2 Chronicles 9:9

  She gave the king one hundred and twenty talents of gold, spices in great abundance, and precious stones. There was never before such spice as the queen of Sheba gave to king Solomon.

• 2 Chronicles 9:10

  The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones.

• 2 Chronicles 34:11

  They gave it to the carpenters and to the builders, to buy cut stone and timber for couplings, and to make beams for the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

• Nehemiah 4:3

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, “What they are building, if a fox climbed up it, he would break down their stone wall.”

• Psalms 118:22

  The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

• Isaiah 8:14

  He will be a sanctuary, but for both houses of Israel, he will be a trap and a snare for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• Isaiah 9:10

  “The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious cornerstone of a sure foundation. He who believes shall not act hastily.

• Isaiah 37:19

  and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

• Isaiah 54:11

  “You afflicted, tossed with storms, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

• Isaiah 54:12

  I will make your pinnacles of rubies, your gates of sparkling jewels, and all your walls of precious stones.

• Lamentations 3:9

  He has walled up my ways with cut stone; he has made my paths crooked.

• Ezekiel 20:32

  “‘“That which comes into your mind shall not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’

• Ezekiel 27:22

  The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.

• Ezekiel 36:26

  I will also give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.

• Daniel 2:34

  You saw until a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.

• Daniel 2:45

  Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor, and take taxes from him of wheat: You have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.

• Zechariah 3:9

  For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

• Matthew 16:18

  I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

• Matthew 21:42

  Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner. This was from the Lord. It is marvelous in our eyes?’

• Matthew 21:43

  “Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.

• Matthew 21:44

  He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but on whomever it will fall, it will scatter him as dust.”

• Matthew 24:2

  But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.

• Mark 12:10

  Haven’t you even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the head of the corner.

• Mark 13:1

  As he went out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, see what kind of stones and what kind of buildings!”

• Mark 15:46

  He bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been cut out of a rock. He rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

• Mark 16:3

  They were saying among themselves, “Who will roll away the stone from the door of the tomb for us?”

• Luke 19:44

  and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”

• Luke 20:17

  But he looked at them, and said, “Then what is this that is written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, the same was made the chief cornerstone?’

• Luke 20:18

  Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, but it will crush whomever it falls on to dust.”

• Luke 21:5

  As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

• Luke 21:6

  “As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down.”

• Acts 4:11

  He is ‘the stone which was regarded as worthless by you, the builders, which has become the head of the corner.’

• Romans 9:33

  even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

• 1 Corinthians 3:11

  For no one can lay any other foundation than that which has been laid, which is Jesus Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 10:4

  and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

• Ephesians 2:20

  being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

• 1 Peter 2:4

  coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious.

• 1 Peter 2:8

  and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

• Revelation 2:17

  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.

• Revelation 21:14

  The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

• Revelation 21:19

  The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

• Revelation 21:20

  the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.