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;
A time to embrace
Bible References
To cast
Joshua 4:3
Instruct them, 'Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.'"
Joshua 10:27
At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)
2 Samuel 18:17
They took Absalom, threw him into a large pit in the forest, and stacked a huge pile of stones over him. In the meantime all the Israelite soldiers fled to their homes.
2 Kings 3:25
They tore down the cities and each man threw a stone into every cultivated field until they were covered. They stopped up every spring and chopped down every productive tree. Only Kir Hareseth was left intact, but the slingers surrounded it and attacked it.
A time to embrace
Exodus 19:15
He said to the people, "Be ready for the third day. Do not go near your wives."
1 Samuel 21:4
The priest replied to David, "I don't have any ordinary bread at my disposal. Only holy bread is available, and then only if your soldiers have abstained from sexual relations with women."
Song of Songs 2:6
His left hand caresses my head, and his right hand stimulates me.
Joel 2:16
Gather the people; sanctify an assembly! Gather the elders; gather the children and the nursing infants. Let the bridegroom come out from his bedroom and the bride from her private quarters.
1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive each other, except by mutual agreement for a specified time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then resume your relationship, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.