- 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
The New Topical Text Book
Punishments
The New Topical Text Book, R. A. Torrey (1897). Public domain, from the CrossWire SWORD module.