What does the Bible say about earth stones?

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• Isaiah 54:11-12

  [11] you afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in beautiful colors, and lay your foundations with sapphires. [12] I will make your pinnacles of rubies, and your gates of emeralds, and all your border of precious stones.

• Exodus 28:17-20

  [17] You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; [18] and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; [19] and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; [20] and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings.

• Joshua 4:2-3

  [2] Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, [3] and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.

• Genesis 2:12

  and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

• Ezekiel 28:13

  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they were prepared.

• Revelation 21:19-20

  [19] The foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; [20] the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

• 1 Kings 10:2

  She came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices, and very much gold, and precious stones; and when she was come to Solomon, she talked with him of all that was in her heart.

• Exodus 28:17-21

  [17] You shall set in it settings of stones, four rows of stones: a row of ruby, topaz, and beryl shall be the first row; [18] and the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and an emerald; [19] and the third row a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; [20] and the fourth row a chrysolite, an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be enclosed in gold in their settings. [21] The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

• 1 Kings 7:9-12

  [9] All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, inside and outside, even from the foundation to the coping, and so on the outside to the great court. [10] The foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits. [11] Above were costly stones, even hewn stone, according to measure, and cedar-wood. [12] The great court round about had three courses of hewn stone, and a course of cedar beams; like as the inner court of the house of Yahweh, and the porch of the house.

• 1 Peter 2:4-5

  [4] coming to him, a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God, precious. [5] You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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