a time to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
Ecclesiastes 3:6a time to search and a time to count as lost, a time to keep and a time to discard,
Treasury of Scripture
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
to cast
Joshua 4:3-9
And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night…
Joshua 10:27
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
2 Samuel 18:17,18
And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and laid a very great heap of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent…
a time to embrace
Exodus 19:15
And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.
1 Samuel 21:4,5
And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women…
Song of Solomon 2:6,7
His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me…
refrain from
