Yosua 24:27

24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. ¹  It will be a witness against you if ²  you deny your God.”

Zakharia 5:4

5:4 “I will send it out,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

Lukas 19:40

19:40 He answered, ³  “I tell you, if they ⁴  keep silent, the very stones ⁵  will cry out!”

[24:27]  ¹ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

[24:27]  ² tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”

[19:40]  ³ tn Grk “and answering, he said.” This has been simplified in the translation to “He answered.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[19:40]  ⁴ tn Grk “these.”

[19:40]  ⁵ sn This statement amounts to a rebuke. The idiom of creation speaking means that even creation knows what is taking place, yet the Pharisees miss it. On this idiom, see Gen 4:10 and Hab 2:11.