The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve
And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said,
so that you may eat and drink at My table in My kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings.