9 Bible Verses about Beating People

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Exodus 21:18

“When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or his fist, and the injured man does not die but is confined to bed,

Exodus 21:20

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.

Exodus 21:25

burn for burn, bruise for bruise, wound for wound.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

If the guilty party deserves to be flogged, the judge will make him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes appropriate for his crime. He may be flogged with 40 lashes, but no more. Otherwise, if he is flogged with more lashes than these, your brother will be degraded in your sight.

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Proverbs 17:26

It is certainly not good to fine an innocent person
or to beat a noble for his honesty.

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1 Kings 14:15

For the Lord will strike Israel and the people will shake as a reed shakes in water. He will uproot Israel from this good soil that He gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates because they made their Asherah poles, provoking the Lord.

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