So Moses ¹  cut out two tablets of stone like the first; ²  early in the morning he went up ³  to Mount Sinai, just as the Lord had commanded him, and he took in his hand the two tablets of stone.

David reached his hand into the bag and took out a stone. He slung it, striking the Philistine on the forehead. The stone sank deeply into his forehead, and he fell down with his face to the ground.

Therefore, this is what the sovereign master, the Lord, says: “Look, I am laying ¹  a stone in Zion, an approved ²  stone, set in place as a precious cornerstone for the foundation. ³  The one who maintains his faith will not panic. ⁴ 

and with cutting and setting stone, and with cutting wood, to work in all kinds of craftsmanship.

There you will worship gods made by human hands – wood and stone that can neither see, hear, eat, nor smell.

By royal order ¹  they supplied large valuable stones in order to build the temple’s foundation with chiseled stone.

They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone. ¹ 

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.

Is ¹  there anyone among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

So ¹  they went with the soldiers ²  of the guard and made the tomb secure by sealing the stone.

They had been asking each other, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?”

But ¹  when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled back.

The devil said to him, “If ¹  you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” ² 

and ‘with their hands they will lift you up, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” ¹ 

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, ¹  each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ² 

In the law Moses commanded us to stone to death ¹  such women. ²  What then do you say?”

Jesus, intensely moved ¹  again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.) ² 

This Jesus ¹  is the stone that was rejected by you, ²  the builders, that has become the cornerstone. ³ 

When both the Gentiles and the Jews (together with their rulers) made ¹  an attempt to mistreat ²  them and stone them, ³