Stones
69 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
29 sections
- City Walls Built of
- Commandments Engraved Upon
- Ezel
- Figurative
- Great, As Landmarks (Some Hebrew Mss Have “Abel”)
- Great, in Solomon's Temple
- Hewers (Stone-Cutters) of
- Hewn (Cut)
- Houses Built of
- Idols Made of
- Magnificent, in Herod the Great's Temple
- Memorial Pillars of
- Precious in the Breastplate and Ephod
- Precious in the Crowns of Kings
- Precious: Exported from Sheba
- Precious: Ophir
- Precious: Partial Catalogue of
- Precious: Seen in the Foundation of the New Jerusalem in John's Apocalyptic Vision
- Precious: Voluntary offerings of, by the Israelites for the Breastplate and Ephod
- Prepared in the Quarries
- Sawed
- Skill in Throwing
- Symbolical of the Kingdom of Christ
- Temple Built of
- The Law of Moses Written Upon
- The True Foundation
- Thrown Upon Accursed Ground
- Tombs Hewn In
- Zoheleth
City Walls Built of
- Nehemiah 4:3 Then Tobiah the Ammonite, who was beside him, said, “If even a fox were to climb up on what they are building, it would break down their wall of stones!”
Commandments Engraved Upon
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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. …
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. …
- 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. …
Ezel
- 1 Samuel 20:19 When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
Figurative
- 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,
- Zechariah 3:9 See the stone I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes. Behold, I will engrave on it an inscription, declares the LORD of Hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of this land in a single day.
Great, As Landmarks (Some Hebrew Mss Have “Abel”)
- 1 Samuel 6:18 The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers — the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to …
Great, in Solomon's Temple
- 1 Kings 5:17–18 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. …
- 1 Kings 7:9–12 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard. …
Hewers (Stone-Cutters) of
- 1 Kings 5:18 So Solomon’s and Hiram’s builders, along with the Gebalites, quarried the stone and prepared the timber and stone for the construction of the temple.
- 2 Kings 12:12 masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.
- 1 Chronicles 22:15 You also have many workers: stonecutters, masons, carpenters, and men skilled in every kind of work —
Hewn (Cut)
- Exodus 34:1 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.
- Deuteronomy 10:1 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.
- 1 Kings 5:17 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
- 1 Kings 6:36 Solomon built the inner courtyard with three rows of dressed stone and one row of trimmed cedar beams.
- 1 Kings 7:9 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
- 2 Kings 12:12 masons, and stonecutters. They also purchased timber and dressed stone to repair the damage to the house of the LORD, and they paid the other expenses of the temple repairs.
- 2 Kings 22:6 to the carpenters, builders, and masons — to buy timber and dressed stone to repair the temple.
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 So David gave orders to gather the foreigners in the land of Israel, from whom he appointed stonecutters to prepare finished stones for building the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 34:11 They also gave money to the carpenters and builders to buy dressed stone, as well as timbers for couplings and beams for the buildings that the kings of Judah had allowed to deteriorate.
- Lamentations 3:9 He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.
Houses Built of
- Isaiah 9:10 “The bricks have fallen, but we will rebuild with finished stone; the sycamores have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.”
- Amos 5:11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Idols Made of
- Deuteronomy 4:28 And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.
- 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:64 Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
- Deuteronomy 29:17 You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.
- 2 Kings 19:18 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone — the work of human hands.
- Isaiah 37:19 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone — the work of human hands.
- Ezekiel 20:32 When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
Magnificent, in Herod the Great's Temple
- Mark 13:1 As Jesus was leaving the temple, one of His disciples said to Him, “Teacher, look at the magnificent stones and buildings!”
Memorial Pillars of
- 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, …
- Genesis 31:45–52 So Jacob picked out a stone and set it up as a pillar, …
- Joshua 4:2–9 “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, …
- Joshua 4:20–24 And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. …
- Joshua 24:25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
Precious in the Breastplate and Ephod
- Exodus 28:9–21 Take two onyx stones and engrave on them the names of the sons of Israel: …
- 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. …
Precious in the Crowns of Kings
- 2 Samuel 12:30 Then he took the crown from the head of their king. It weighed a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
- 1 Chronicles 20:2 Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
Precious: Exported from Sheba
- 1 Kings 10:2 She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan— with camels bearing spices, gold in great abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke to him all that was on her mind.
- 1 Kings 10:10 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. Never again were spices in such abundance brought in as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.
- 2 Chronicles 9:9–10 Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, a great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There had never been such spices as those the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon. …
- Ezekiel 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; for your wares they exchanged gold, the finest of all spices, and precious stones.
Precious: Ophir
- 1 Kings 10:11 (The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
Precious: Partial Catalogue of
- Ezekiel 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the …
Precious: Seen in the Foundation of the New Jerusalem in John's Apocalyptic Vision
- Revelation 21:19–20 The foundations of the city walls were adorned with every kind of precious stone: The first foundation was jasper, the second sapphire, the third chalcedony, the fourth emerald, …
Precious: Voluntary offerings of, by the Israelites for the Breastplate and Ephod
- Exodus 35:27 The leaders brought onyx stones and gemstones to mount on the ephod and breastpiece,
Prepared in the Quarries
- 1 Kings 6:7 The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.
Sawed
- 1 Kings 7:9 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
Skill in Throwing
- Judges 20:16 Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
- 1 Chronicles 12:2 they were archers using both the right and left hands to sling stones and shoot arrows; and they were Saul’s kinsmen from Benjamin):
Symbolical of the Kingdom of Christ
- Daniel 2:34 As you watched, a stone was cut out, but not by human hands. It struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.
- Daniel 2:45 And just as you saw a stone being cut out of the mountain without human hands, and it shattered the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold, so the great God has told the king what will happen in the future. The dream is true, and …
Temple Built of
- 1 Kings 5:17–18 And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones. …
- 1 Kings 7:9–12 All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard. …
- Matthew 24:2 “Do you see all these things?” He replied. “Truly I tell you, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.”
- Luke 19:44 They will level you to the ground — you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”
- Luke 21:5–6 As some of the disciples were remarking how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and consecrated gifts, Jesus said, …
The Law of Moses Written Upon
- Joshua 8:32 And there in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua inscribed on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he had written.
The True Foundation
- Isaiah 28:16 So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
- Matthew 16:18 And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- 1 Corinthians 3:11 For no one can lay a foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.
- Ephesians 2:20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.
- Revelation 21:14 The wall of the city had twelve foundations bearing the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Thrown Upon Accursed Ground
- 2 Kings 3:19 And you shall attack every fortified city and every city of importance. You shall cut down every good tree, stop up every spring, and ruin every good field with stones.”
- 2 Kings 3:25 They destroyed the cities, and each man threw stones on every good field until it was covered. They stopped up every spring and cut down every good tree. Only Kir-haraseth was left with stones in place, but men with slings …
Tombs Hewn In
- Matthew 27:60 and placed it in his own new tomb that he had cut into the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance to the tomb and went away.
- Mark 15:46 So Joseph bought a linen cloth, took down the body of Jesus, wrapped it in the cloth, and placed it in a tomb that had been cut out of the rock. Then he rolled a stone against the entrance to the tomb.
- Mark 16:3 They were asking one another, “Who will roll away the stone from the entrance of the tomb?”
Zoheleth
- 1 Kings 1:9 And Adonijah sacrificed sheep, oxen, and fattened calves near the stone of Zoheleth, which is next to En-rogel. He invited all his royal brothers and all the men of Judah who were servants of the king.
Related topics
Stones of Christ's Rejection, the Rejected ConerstoneStones of Temptation, “Stone of Stumbling”Stones used for Closing GravesStones of Christ, the Water of LifeStones of Christ, “A Tested Stone” “A Precious Stone” “A Sure Foundation, ”Stones of the Impenitent Heart
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.