Ecclesiastes 3:5

A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;

2 Kings 3:25

Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

Joel 2:16

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.

Joshua 4:3-9

And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.

Joshua 10:27

And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.

1 Samuel 21:4-5

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.

2 Samuel 18:17-18

And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.

Song of Songs 2:6-7

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

Bible References

To cast

Joshua 4:3
And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.
Joshua 10:27
And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.
2 Kings 3:25
Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.

A time to embrace

Exodus 19:15
And he said to the people, Be ready by the third day: do not come near a woman.
1 Samuel 21:4
And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.
Song of Songs 2:6
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand is round about me.
Joel 2:16
Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain