and, "a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "Behold, I will lay stumbling blocks before this people. The fathers and the sons together shall stumble against them. The neighbor and his friend shall perish."

Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

"'You shall not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind; but you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.

He will say, "Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people."

"Woe to the world because of occasions of stumbling! For it must be that the occasions come, but woe to that person through whom the occasion comes!

The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his Kingdom all things that cause stumbling, and those who do iniquity,

But he turned, and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of men."

He said to the disciples, "It is impossible that no occasions of stumbling should come, but woe to him through whom they come!

David says, "Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

but we preach Christ crucified; a stumbling block to Jews, and foolishness to Greeks,

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Give no occasions for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;

We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Yahweh: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Son of man, these men have taken their idols into their heart, and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face: should I be inquired of at all by them?

Therefore speak to them, and tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Every man of the house of Israel who takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet; I Yahweh will answer him therein according to the multitude of his idols;

For everyone of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live in Israel, who separates himself from me, and takes his idols into his heart, and puts the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face, and comes to the prophet to inquire for himself of me; I Yahweh will answer him by myself:

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity.

He who loves his brother remains in the light, and there is no occasion for stumbling in him.

Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,

Blessed is he who finds no occasion for stumbling in me."

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

"Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it give forth its water; and you shall bring forth to them water out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink."

Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, "Hear now, you rebels; shall we bring you water out of this rock for you?"

[other] ten thousand did the children of Judah carry away alive, and brought them to the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, so that they all were broken in pieces.

He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

But six hundred men turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, and stayed in the rock of Rimmon four months.

Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

Be to me a rock of refuge to which I may always go. Give the command to save me, for you are my rock and my fortress.

Yahweh lives! Blessed be my rock! Exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.

and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.

The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.

Moses lifted up his hand, and struck the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their livestock.

He looked at the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said, "Your dwelling place is strong. Your nest is set in the rock.

Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice: a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.

How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and Yahweh had delivered them up?

He will say, "Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.

His roots are wrapped around the rock pile. He sees the place of stones.

"But the mountain falling comes to nothing. The rock is removed out of its place;

You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?

The border of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

The angel of God said to him, "Take the meat and the unleavened cakes, and lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth." He did so.

Then the angel of Yahweh stretched out the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the meat and the unleavened cakes; and fire went up out of the rock, and consumed the meat and the unleavened cakes; and the angel of Yahweh departed out of his sight.

That with an iron pen and lead they were engraved in the rock forever!

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

He puts forth his hand on the flinty rock, and he overturns the mountains by the roots.

when my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out streams of oil for me,

They took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

So Manoah took the young goat with the meal offering, and offered it on the rock to Yahweh: and [the angel] did wondrously, and Manoah and his wife looked on.

He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.

Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, "As they did to me, so have I done to them."

They spoke to him, saying, "No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand; but surely we will not kill you." They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.

They turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men, and followed hard after them to Gidom, and struck of them two thousand men.

For who is God, except Yahweh? Who is a rock, besides our God,

Yahweh lives; and blessed be my rock. Exalted be the God of my salvation,

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, Yahweh, my rock, and my redeemer. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Bow down your ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name's sake lead me and guide me.

The whole congregation sent and spoke to the children of Benjamin who were in the rock of Rimmon, and proclaimed peace to them.

There is no one as holy as Yahweh, For there is no one besides you, nor is there any rock like our God.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

I will ask God, my rock, "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"

From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress -- I will never be greatly shaken.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress. I will not be shaken.

With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

He brought streams also out of the rock, and caused waters to run down like rivers.

Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?"

They remembered that God was their rock, the Most High God, their redeemer.

But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock." A Psalm by Asaph.

Yahweh also said, "Behold, there is a place by me, and you shall stand on the rock.

It will happen, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand until I have passed by;

He will call to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!'

to show that Yahweh is upright. He is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.

Oh come, let's sing to Yahweh. Let's shout aloud to the rock of our salvation!

He opened the rock, and waters gushed out. They ran as a river in the dry places.

Saul and his men went to seek him. When David was told, he went down to the rock, and stayed in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

who turned the rock into a pool of water, the flint into a spring of waters.

Happy shall he be, who takes and dashes your little ones against the rock. By David.

Their judges are thrown down by the sides of the rock. They will hear my words, for they are well spoken.

Blessed be Yahweh, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, and my fingers to battle: