Stones

How Nave’s arranged it

• Commandments engraved uponExodus 24:12Exodus 31:18Exodus 34:1–4Deuteronomy 4:13Deuteronomy 5:22Deuteronomy 9:9–11Deuteronomy 10:1–3
• The law of Moses written uponJoshua 8:32
• Houses built ofIsaiah 9:10Amos 5:11
• Temple built of1 Kings 5:171 Kings 5:181 Kings 7:9–12Matthew 24:2Luke 19:44Luke 21:5Luke 21:6
• Prepared in the quarries1 Kings 6:7
• Hewn (cut)Exodus 34:1Deuteronomy 10:11 Kings 5:171 Kings 6:361 Kings 7:92 Kings 12:122 Kings 22:61 Chronicles 22:22 Chronicles 34:11Lamentations 3:9
• Sawed1 Kings 7:9
• Hewers (stone-cutters) of1 Kings 5:182 Kings 12:121 Chronicles 22:15
• City walls built ofNehemiah 4:3
• Memorial pillars ofGenesis 28:18–22Genesis 31:45–52Joshua 4:2–9Joshua 4:20–24Joshua 24:251 Samuel 7:12
• Great, as landmarks (Some Hebrew mss. have "Abel")1 Samuel 6:18
• Ezel1 Samuel 20:19

The passages, in Bible order (90)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 28:18–22

   Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

   ›Commentary on Genesis 28:18–222 voices

   “Jacob set up a stone, etc.--The mere setting up of the stone might have been as a future memorial to mark the spot; and this practice is still common in the East, in memory of a religious vow or engagement. But the pouring oil upon it was a consecration.

   “On the other hand the stone also had been erected and honored as a symbol of Christ and had been sprinkled with oil. The Immanuel was anointed by God the Father "with the oil of gladness above his fellows." Then he was raised from the dead, even though he had descended to death voluntarily. And that is, I believe, the meaning of erecting the stone.

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2. Genesis 31:45–52

   So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar,

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3. Genesis 49:24

   Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

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   “(Verse 22 and following) The son of Joseph grew up, the son of Joseph grown tall above the fountain of the daughter, walking with a composed stride on the wall. And they provoked him, and contended with him, and were angry against him, having arrows. He sat in the strength of his bow, and the chains of his hands were broken, from the hands of the mighty Jacob. From there will come the shepherd, the stone of Israel from the God of your father: and the rest.

   “Herein Joseph was a type, [1.] Of Christ; he was shot at and hated, but borne up under his sufferings ( Isa. l. 7-9 ), and was afterwards advanced to be the shepherd and stone. [2.] Of the church in general, and particular believers; hell shoots its arrows against the saints, but Heaven protects and strengthens them, and will crown them. The promises of God to Joseph.

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4. Exodus 24:12

   Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

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5. Exodus 28:9–21

   Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel:

   ›Commentary on Exodus 28:9–212 voices

   “And thou shall take two onyx stones,.... called from the colour of a man's nail, which they to resemble: the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan call them stones of beryl, and so the Syriac version; the Septuagint, stones of emerald, and the Arabic version, crystal stones: but, according to Josephus (x), they were sardonyx stones, and in which Brannius (y) thinks he was right: and grave on them the names of the children of Israel; the names of the twelve sons of Jacob, six on one stone and six on the other, as often mentioned, for which onyx stones are very fit; and they must be very large to have so many letters graved upon them; for there is no reason to believe the initial letters of their names only were engraved, but their whole names at length.

   “The ephod was fastened by a girdle of the same costly materials, that is, dyed, embroidered, and wrought with threads of gold. It was about a handbreadth wide and wound twice round the upper part of the waist; it fastened in front, the ends hanging down at great length (Re 1:13).

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6. Exodus 31:18

   When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

   ›Commentary on Exodus 31:182 voices

   “When he had made an end of communing - When the forty days and forty nights were ended. Two tables of testimony - See Clarke’s note on Exo 34:1. Tables of stone - That the record might be lasting, because it was a testimony that referred to future generations, and therefore the materials should be durable. Written with the finger of God - All the letters cut by God himself.

   “The law was written in tables of stone, to denote the perpetual duration of it (what can be supposed to last longer than that which is written in stone, and laid up?), to denote likewise the hardness of our hearts; one might more easily write in stone than write any thing that is good in our corrupt and sinful hearts.

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7. Exodus 34:1–4

   Then the LORD said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.

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   “Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first - In Exo 32:16 we are told that the two first tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God; but here Moses is commanded to provide tables of his own workmanship, and God promises to write on them the words which were on the first. That God wrote the first tables himself, see proved by different passages of Scripture at the end of Exodus 32 (Exo 32:35 (note)).

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8. Exodus 35:27

   The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,

   ›Commentary on Exodus 35:271 voice

   “Who would have thought that ever the wealth of Egypt should have been so well employed? but thus God has often made the earth to help the woman, Rev. xii. It was by a special providence and promise of God that the Israelites got all that spoil, and therefore it was highly fit that they should devote a part of it to the service of that God to whom they owed it all.

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9. Exodus 39:6–14

   They mounted the onyx stones in gold filigree settings, engraved like a seal with the names of the sons of Israel.

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10. Leviticus 19:36

    You shall maintain honest scales and weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

    ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:361 voice

    “Just balances - Scales, steel-yard, etc. Weights, אבנים abanim, stones, as the weights appear to have been originally formed out of stones. Ephah, hin, etc., see before.

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11. Deuteronomy 4:13

    He declared to you His covenant, which He commanded you to follow—the Ten Commandments that He wrote on two tablets of stone.

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12. Deuteronomy 4:28

    And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:281 voice

    “Justly are they then sent to the gods whom they have served, Judg. x. 14 . [3.] Yet he encourages them to hope that God would reserve mercy for them in the latter days, that he would by his judgments upon them bring them to repentance, and take them again into covenant with himself,

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13. Deuteronomy 5:22

    The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:222 voices

    “He adds, that it was "a great voice," i.e., a voice which had, in an unwonted manner, penetrated far and wide. Nor are the witnesses few, whom he cites, but all that vast multitude, which for the most part would have been more disposed to extinguish the glory of God, unless it had been there made known by manifest proofs.

    “He added no more - i. e., He spoke no more with the great voice directly to the people, but addressed all other communications to them through Moses. This unique and sublime phenomenon, followed up by the inscription of the Ten Words on the two tables by the finger of God, marks not only the holiness of God’s Law in general, but the special eminence and permanent obligation of the Ten Words themselves as compared with the rest of the Mosaic enactments.

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14. Deuteronomy 9:9–11

    When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 9:9–111 voice

    Every form of nourishment is called "bread" in the Scriptures. This is clear from what is written concerning Moses: for forty days he neither ate "bread" nor drank water. The word that nourishes is multidimensional and varied. Not everyone can receive the solid and strong nourishment of God's teachings. Therefore, wishing to give an athlete's nourishment suitable to the more perfect, [Christ] says, "The bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

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15. Deuteronomy 10:1–3

    At that time the LORD said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the originals, come up to Me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.

    ›Commentary on Deuteronomy 10:1–32 voices

    “At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first--It was when God had been pacified through the intercessions of Moses with the people who had so greatly offended Him by the worship of the golden calf.

    “These verses are closely connected with the preceding chapter, and state very briefly the results of the intercession of Moses recorded in Deu 9:25-29. The people are reminded that all their blessings and privileges, forfeited by apostasy as soon as bestowed, were only now their own by a new and most unmerited act of grace on the part of God, won from Him by the self-sacrificing mediation of Moses himself Deu 10:10. Deu 10:1-5. The order for making the ark and tabernacle was evidently given before the apostasy of the people (Exo.

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16. Deuteronomy 28:36

    The LORD will bring you and the king you appoint to a nation neither you nor your fathers have known, and there you will worship other gods—gods of wood and stone.

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