Nave’s Topical Bible
Stones
92 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Commandments engraved upon
Exodus 24:12; Exodus 31:18; Exodus 34:1-4; Deuteronomy 4:13; Deuteronomy 5:22; Deuteronomy 9:9-11; Deuteronomy 10:1-3
- The law of Moses written upon
- Houses built of
- Temple built of
1 Kings 5:17-18; 1 Kings 7:9-12; Matthew 24:2; Luke 19:44; Luke 21:5-6
- Prepared in the quarries
- Hewn (cut)
Exodus 34:1; Deuteronomy 10:1; 1 Kings 5:17; 1 Kings 6:36; 1 Kings 7:9; 2 Kings 12:12; 2 Kings 22:6; 1 Chronicles 22:2; 2 Chronicles 34:11; Lamentations 3:9
- Sawed
- Hewers (stone-cutters) of
- City walls built of
- Memorial pillars of
Genesis 28:18-22; Genesis 31:45-52; Joshua 4:2-9,20-24; Joshua 24:25; 1 Samuel 7:12
- Great, as landmarks (Some Hebrew mss. have "Abel")
- Ezel
- Zoheleth
- Thrown upon accursed ground
- Used
- In building altars
- For weighing (margin)
- For closing graves
- Tombs hewn in
- Idols made of
Deuteronomy 4:28; Deuteronomy 28:36,64; Deuteronomy 29:17; 2 Kings 19:18; Isaiah 37:19; Ezekiel 20:32
- Great, in Solomon's temple
- Magnificent, in Herod the Great's temple
- Skill in throwing
See SLINGS
See ADAMANT
See CHALCEDONY
See MARBLE
See ONYX
See PILLARS
See PRECIOUS, blow
- FIGURATIVE
- Of temptation, "Stone of Stumbling,"
- Of Christ, "a Tested Stone," "a Precious Stone," "a Sure Foundation,"
- Of Christ's rejection, the rejected Conerstone
Psalms 118:22; Matthew 21:42-44; Mark 12:10; Luke 20:17-18; Acts 4:11; 1 Peter 2:4
- The True Foundation
Isaiah 28:16; Matthew 16:18; 1 Corinthians 3:11; Ephesians 2:20; Revelation 21:14
- Of Christ, the Water of Life
- Of the impenitent heart
- Of the witness of the Spirit, the white stone
- SYMBOLICAL
- Of the kingdom of Christ
- PRECIOUS
- In the breastplate and ephod
- Voluntary offerings of, by the Israelites for the Breastplate and ephod
- Exported from Sheba
- Ophir
- Partial catalogue of
- Seen in the foundation of the New Jerusalem in John's Apocalyptic vision
- In the crowns of kings
- FIGURATIVE
Bible verses about “Stones”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Exodus 24:12And 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 31:18And 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 34:1And 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.
- Exodus 34:2And 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.
- Exodus 34:3And 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.
- Exodus 34:4And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the Lord had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone.
- Deuteronomy 4:13And 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 5:22These 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 9:9When 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:
- Deuteronomy 9:10And 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.
- Deuteronomy 9:11And 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 10:1At 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:2And 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:3And 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.
- Joshua 8:32And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
- Isaiah 9:10The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Amos 5:11Forasmuch 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.
- 1 Kings 5:17And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
- 1 Kings 5:18And 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 7:9All 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.
- 1 Kings 7:10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.
- 1 Kings 7:11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.
- 1 Kings 7:12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the Lord, and for the porch of the house.
- Matthew 24:2And 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 19:44And 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 21:5And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said,
- Luke 21:6As 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.
- 1 Kings 6:7And 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.
- 1 Kings 6:36And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone, and a row of cedar beams.
- 2 Kings 12:12And 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 22:6Unto carpenters, and builders, and masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone to repair the house.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2And 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 34:11Even 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 3:9He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15Moreover 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.
- Nehemiah 4:3Now 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.
- Genesis 28:18And 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.
- Genesis 28:19And he called the name of that place Beth–el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- Genesis 28:20And 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 28:21So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God: