Bible Verses About Stones

"At that time ADONAI said to me, 'Cut yourself two stone tablets like the first ones, come up to me on the mountain, and make yourself an ark of wood.

I will inscribe on the tablets the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke; and you are to put them in the ark.'

So I made an ark of acacia-wood and cut two stone tablets like the first, then climbed the mountain with the two tablets in my hand.

ADONAI will bring you and your king whom you have put over yourselves to a nation you have not known, neither you nor your ancestors; and there you will serve other gods made of wood and stone.

ADONAI will scatter you among all peoples from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve other gods, made of wood and stone, which neither you nor your ancestors have known.

and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold that they had with them.

"Take for yourselves from the people twelve men, a man from every tribe;

and give them this order: 'Take twelve stones from the middle of the Yarden riverbed, where the cohanim are standing, carry them over with you and set them down in the place where you will camp tonight.'"

Y'hoshua called the twelve men whom he had chosen from the people of Isra'el, a man from every tribe,

and said to them, "Go on ahead of the ark of ADONAI your God into the riverbed of the Yarden. Then, each of you take a stone on his shoulder, corresponding to the number of tribes of the people of Isra'el.

This will be a sign for you. In the future, when your children ask, 'What do you mean by these stones?'

you will answer them, 'It's because the water in the Yarden was cut off before the ark for the covenant of ADONAI; when it crossed the Yarden, the water in the Yarden was cut off; and these stones are to be a reminder for the people of Isra'el forever.'"

The people of Isra'el did just as Y'hoshua had ordered. They took twelve stones out of the Yarden riverbed, as ADONAI had said to Y'hoshua, corresponding to the number of the tribes of the people of Isra'el, carried them over with them to the place where they were camping, and set them down there.

Y'hoshua also set up twelve stones in the Yarden River itself, in the place where the feet of the cohanim carrying the ark for the covenant had stood. They are there to this day.

Those twelve stones which they took out of the Yarden, Y'hoshua piled up at Gilgal.

Then he said to the people of Isra'el, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers what these stones mean,

you are to explain it to them by saying, 'Isra'el came over this Yarden on dry land.

For ADONAI your God dried up the water in the Yarden from in front of you, until you had crossed, just as ADONAI your God did to the Sea of Suf, which he dried up from in front of us, until we had crossed.

From this all the peoples of the earth can know that the hand of ADONAI is strong, and you can fear ADONAI your God forever.'"

He wrote there on the stones a copy of the Torah of Moshe, inscribing it in the presence of the people of Isra'el.

So Y'hoshua made a covenant with the people that day, laying down for them laws and rulings there in Sh'khem.

Sh'mu'el took a stone, placed it between Mitzpah and Shen, and gave it the name Even-'Ezer [stone of help], explaining, "ADONAI has helped us until now."

The king gave orders; and they quarried large stones, expensive stones, to lay the foundation of the house with cut stone.

Shlomo's and Hiram's builders, along with the men from G'val, worked the stones and prepared the timber and stones for building the house.

For the house, when under construction, was built of stone prepared at the quarry; so that no hammer, chisel or iron tool of any kind was heard in the house while it was being built.