Bible Cross References
brethren
Genesis 31:23
Then he took his brethren with him and pursued him for seven days' journey, and he overtook him in the mountains of Gilead.
Genesis 31:32
"With whomever you find your gods, do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take [it] with you." For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:37
"Although you have searched all my things, what part of your household things have you found? Set [it] here before my brethren and your brethren, that they may judge between us both!
Genesis 31:54
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain, and called his brethren to eat bread. And they ate bread and stayed all night on the mountain.
Gather
Joshua 4:5-9
5
and Joshua said to them: "Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,
6
"that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones [mean] to you?'
7
"Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever."
8
And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9
Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
Joshua 4:20-24
20
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
21
Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What [are] these stones?'
22
"then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land';
23
"for the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over,
24
"that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it [is] mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever."
Joshua 7:26
Then they raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called the Valley of Achor to this day.
2 Samuel 18:17
And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel fled, everyone to his tent.
Ecclesiastes 3:5
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;