A stone [is] heavy, and the sand weighty,.... As was the stone which was at the well's mouth, where Laban's flocks were watered, which could not be rolled away till all the shepherds were gathered together, Ge 29:2; and like the burdensome stone Jerusalem is compared to Zec 12:3; and as that at the sepulchre of Christ, rolled away by the angel, Mt 28:2.
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Proverbs 27:3
Proverbs 27:3
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