Stones

Commandments engraved upon

• Exodus 24:12

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

• Exodus 31:18

  And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

• Exodus 34:1–4

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest. And be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. And no man shall come up with thee, neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount; neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount. …

• Deuteronomy 4:13

  And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

• Deuteronomy 5:22

  These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

• Deuteronomy 9:9–11

  When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread nor drink water: And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly. And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

• Deuteronomy 10:1–3

  At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand.

The law of Moses written upon

• Joshua 8:32

  And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

Houses built of

• Isaiah 9:10

  The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.

• Amos 5:11

  Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.

Temple built of

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

• 1 Kings 5:18

  And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

• 1 Kings 7:9–12

  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. …

• Matthew 24:2

  And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

• Luke 19:44

  And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.

• Luke 21:5

  And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,

• Luke 21:6

  As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Prepared in the quarries

• 1 Kings 6:7

  And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

Hewn (cut)

• Exodus 34:1

  And the LORD said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

• Deuteronomy 10:1

  At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:36

  And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

• 2 Kings 12:12

  And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 2 Kings 22:6

  Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

• 1 Chronicles 22:2

  And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

• 2 Chronicles 34:11

  Even to the artificers and builders gave they it, to buy hewn stone, and timber for couplings, and to floor the houses which the kings of Judah had destroyed.

• Lamentations 3:9

  He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

Sawed

• 1 Kings 7:9

  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

Hewers (stone-cutters) of

• 1 Kings 5:18

  And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

• 2 Kings 12:12

  And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house of the LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.

• 1 Chronicles 22:15

  Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

City walls built of

• Nehemiah 4:3

  Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

Memorial pillars of

• Genesis 28:18–22

  And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first. And 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 raiment to put on, …

• Genesis 31:45–52

  And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made an heap: and they did eat there upon the heap. And Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. …

• Joshua 4:2–9

  Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: …

• Joshua 4:20–24

  And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. …

• Joshua 24:25

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

• 1 Samuel 7:12

  Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.

Great, as landmarks (Some Hebrew mss. have "Abel")

• 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 fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Beth-shemite.

Ezel

• 1 Samuel 20:19

  And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.

Zoheleth

• 1 Kings 1:9

  And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king's sons, and all the men of Judah the king's servants:

Thrown upon accursed ground

• 2 Kings 3:19

  And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.

• 2 Kings 3:25

  And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

Used

Tombs hewn in

• Matthew 27:60

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

• Mark 15:46

  And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.

• Mark 16:3

  And they said among themselves, Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?

Idols made of

• Deuteronomy 4:28

  And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

• Deuteronomy 28:36

  The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 28:64

  And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

• Deuteronomy 29:17

  And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

• 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.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 20:32

  And that which cometh into your mind shall not be at all, that ye say, We will be as the heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.

Great, in Solomon' s temple

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.

• 1 Kings 5:18

  And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

• 1 Kings 7:9–12

  All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court. And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars. …

Magnificent, in Herod the Great' s temple

• Mark 13:1

  And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here!

Skill in throwing

• Judges 20:16

  Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.

• 1 Chronicles 12:2

  They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Figurative

• Genesis 49:24

  But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)

• Zechariah 3:9

  For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.

Symbolical

Precious

Figurative

• Isaiah 54:11

  O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

• Isaiah 54:12

  And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.