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They arose early in the morning and advanced into the plain and saw what a large army, both infantry and cavalry, was coming to meet them. A stream lay between them, (1 Maccabees 16, 5)
and opened a secret door in the ceiling. Then they threw stones down and crushed the leader and his men. They then dismembered the bodies, cut off their heads and threw them to those outside. (2 Maccabees 1, 16)
and when the sacrifice was all consumed, Nehemiah ordered that the remaining liquid be poured over some large stones. (2 Maccabees 1, 31)
There Jeremiah found a cave; and he brought in the ark, the tent that covered it and the altar of incense. Then he closed up the entrance with stones. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
So, as the people were attacked by the men of Lysimachus, they reacted by picking up stones and clubs, and even gathered handfuls of ashes lying at hand, and threw everything against the men of Lysimachus. (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
A time for throwing stones, a time for gathering stones; a time for embracing, a time to refrain from embracing. (Ecclesiastes 3, 5)
he who quarries stones may be hurt by them and he who splits logs may be wounded; (Ecclesiastes 10, 9)
But unhappy, indeed, are those people who give to man-made artifacts the title of gods! Cursed is their hope in dead things, objects worked in gold and silver, likenesses of animals, and even useless stones carved long ago! (Wisdom of Solomon 13, 10)
In this way the image became a pitfall for the living, for people bent down, either by misfortune or tyranny, gave to stones and wood the incommunicable Name. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 21)
For the whole world was represented on his flowing robe, the glorious names of the fathers on the four rows of stones, and your majesty engraved on the diadem on his head. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 24)
Building a house with borrowed money is like collecting stones for your own tomb. (Ecclesiasticus 21, 8)
Whoever throws stones at birds scares them off; reproach a friend and you will kill the friendship. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 20)