Gen 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:)Such is the promise of a stone, but in the inheritance-blessing of Joseph and not only that given to Judah? Yet, we forget what matters, even to the one we love best.
1Sa 7:12
Then Samuel took a stone, and set [it] between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.
Such is the stone of help, placed by Samuel, the prophet whose words God never allowed to fall to the ground.
1Sa 17:49
And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang [it], and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth. So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but [there was] no sword in the hand of David.
Such is the stone unexpected, hidden in the bag of a boy, that nevertheless fells a giant who cast fear in the hearts of many warriors for 40 days.
Neh 4:1
But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 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. Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked [thee] to anger before the builders. So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
And so goes the story of the interplay: opposition leads to prayer leads to boldness and success leads to more opposition...until the builders grow accustomed to working with a tool in one hand and a sword in the other. Such is durability of the stone.
Job 28:2
Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass [is] molten [out of] the stone.
Job 38:6
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof;
From stone to fire to brass for the fastenings of the foundations of all that is created. Who is responsible?(Aa large question, indeed.) It is another progression given secret prominence in the visions of the prophets. Such is another story of the stone.
Psa 91:12
They shall bear thee up in [their] hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Mat 4:6
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in [their] hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Psa 118:22
The stone [which] the builders refused is become the head [stone] of the corner.
Mat 21:42
Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Such is the nature of the stone as the fulfillment of the words of the prophets, and as the twisting of these words. Such is the diverse power of the stone.
Isa 8:14
And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
But the fulfillment verse of this stone of prophecy waits for the second house of Israel to take offence.
Pro 17:8
A gift [is as] a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it: whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth.
Such is the representative value of a stone, and the promise of its future when it is given away.
Isa 28:16
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Such is the nature of God's timing when He works with the stone. It falls into place by the perfect work of patience.
Jos 4:5
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, [when the waters were miraculously held back for their crossing] and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Jer 51:63
And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, [that] thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates:
Such is the nature of the stone--for revealing what is in the depths, and for hiding the same.
Lam 3:9
He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
Lam 3:53
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Such is the power of the stone to judge beneficially and to protect through chastening.
Exd 24:10
And they saw the God of Israel: and [there was] under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in [his] clearness.
Eze 1:26
And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
Sapphire is the stone God Himself sees when He casts His eye upon the firmament He made for Himself. Such is the most noble work of stone.
Eze 28:13
Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone [was] thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
Hab 2:19
Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it [is] laid over with gold and silver, and [there is] no breath at all in the midst of it.
Luk 4:3
And the devil said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, command this stone that it be made bread.
Rev 18:21
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Such is the nature of the stone turned to greed, to commerce for personal gain alone, the stone lost;
it cloaked and identified Lucifer through the days when he was still an archangel and marked his fall,
it carried no words of life, despite the deception of its overlay,
it failed to tempt Christ, even on a level we do not understand
And so it was redeemed to be thrown for judgment: given to mark the end of the days allotted for decision-making and personal revelation amongst men.
Dan 2:34
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream [is] certain, and the interpretation thereof sure. Such is the fore-telling power of the stone's image when it visits even the dreams of a pagan king in days of old, that he might see the ending of things.
Zec 3:8
Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they [are] men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. 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. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.
Such is the stone that remembers because it sees with the seven eyes of God. As it was in the early days of Solomon, so shall it be again. For it was to the second king to call the people to sit beneath vine and fig-tree; and while we know well the vine, we have long forgotten the fig tree. But all is not lost, for the stone shall revive our remembrance and the vine will smile, having known all along that we would remember.
Mat 7:9
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
Such is the whimsical nature of the stone, the clever side that looks to see who knows to chuckle with him.
Mat 21:44
And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder.
This is the stone I speak over my husband, as I dreamed him to be the ground-stone powder infusing the sweet silvery waters of glacial streams. This is the running water's favored state of being.
Luk 22:41
And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast, and kneeled down, and prayed...
Luk 23:53
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Luk 24:2
And they found the stone rolled away from the sepulchre.
Such is the nature of the stone as marker, given to highlight the start, progression and finish of the work of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Rev 2:17
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it].
Rev 21:9
And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.
Rev 21:10
And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
Rev 21:11
Having the glory of God: and her light [was] like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;
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