Dictionary entry

Punishments

R. A. Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Antiquity of Ge 4:13,14

Power of inflicting, given to magistrates Job 31:11; Ro 13:4

Designed to be a warning to others De 13:11; 17:13; 19:20

WERE INFLICTED

On the guilty De 24:16; Pr 17:26

Without pity De 19:13,21

Without partiality De 13:6-8

By order of magistrates Ac 16:22

By order of kings 2Sa 1:13-16; 1Ki 2:23-46

Immediately after sentence was passed De 25:2; Jos 7:25

By the witnesses De 13:9; 17:7; Joh 8:7; Ac 7:58,59

By the people Nu 15:35,36; De 13:9

By soldiers 2Sa 1:15; Mt 27:27-35

Sometimes deferred until God was consulted Nu 15:34

Sometimes deferred for a considerable time 1Ki 2:5,6,8,9

SECONDARY KINDS OF

Imprisonment Ezr 7:26; Mt 5:25

Confinement in a dungeon Jer 38:6; Zec 9:11

Confinement in stocks Jer 20:2; Ac 16:24

Fine, or giving of money Ex 21:22; De 22:19

Restitution Ex 21:36; 22:1-4; Le 6:4,5; 24:18

Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done Ex 21:24; De 19:21

Binding with chains and fetters Ps 105:18

Scourging De 25:2,3; Mt 27:26; Ac 22:25; 2Co 11:24

Selling the criminal Mt 18:25

Banishment Ezr 7:26; Re 1:9

Torturing Mt 18:34; Heb 11:37

Putting out the eyes Jud 16:21; 1Sa 11:2

Cutting off hands and feet 2Sa 4:12

Mutilating the hands and feet Jud 1:5-7

Cutting off nose and ears Eze 23:25

Plucking out the hair Ne 13:25; Isa 50:6

Confiscating the property Ezr 7:26

Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans Joh 18:31

CAPITAL KINDS OF

Burning Ge 38:24; Le 20:14; Da 3:6

Hanging Nu 25:4; De 21:22,23; Jos 8:29; 2Sa 21:12; Es 7:9,10

Crucifying Mt 20:19; 27:35

Beheading Ge 40:19; Mr 6:16,27

Slaying with the sword 1Sa 15:33; Ac 12:2

Stoning Le 24:14; De 13:10; Ac 7:59

Cutting in pieces Da 2:5; Mt 24:51

Sawing asunder Heb 11:37

Exposing to wild beasts Da 6:16,24; 1Co 15:32

Bruising in mortars Pr 27:22

Casting headlong from a rock 2Ch 25:12

Casting into the sea Mt 18:6

Strangers not exempted from Le 20:2

Were sometimes commuted Ex 21:29,30

For murder not to be commuted Nu 35:31,32