Ecclesiastes 3:5

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

Cross References

2 Kings 3:25

The cities they overturned, and on every good piece of land everyone threw a stone, until it was covered; every spring of water they stopped up, and every good tree they felled. Only at Kir-hareseth did the stone walls remain, until the slingers surrounded and attacked it.

Exodus 19:15

And he said to the people, “Prepare for the third day; do not go near a woman.”

Ecclesiastes 3:4

a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;

Joel 2:16

gather the people. Sanctify the congregation; assemble the aged; gather the children, even infants at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her canopy.

1 Corinthians 7:5

Do not deprive one another except perhaps by agreement for a set time, to devote yourselves to prayer, and then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves; they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.