Reference: PUNISHMENTS OF THE HEBREWS
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PUNISHMENTS OF THE HEBREWS. There were several sorts of punishments in use among the Jews which are mentioned in the Scripture.
1. The punishment of the cross. (See Cross.) 2. Suspension, Es 7:10; Jos 8:29; 2Sa 21:12. 3. Stoning. 4. Fire. This punishment was common, Ge 38:24; Le 21:9. 5. The rack or tympanum, mentioned Heb 11:35. Commentators are much divided about the meaning of this punishment; but most of them are of opinion that the bastinado, or the punishment of the stick, is intended, and that the Apostle alludes to the cruelties exercised upon old Eleazar; for, in 2 Mac. 6:19, where his martyrdom is spoken of, it is said that he came to the tympanum. 6. The precipice, or throwing persons headlong from a rock, with a stone tied about the neck, 2Ch 25:12. 7. Decapitation, Ge 40:19; Jg 9:5; 2Ki 10:7; Mt 14:8. 8. The punishment of the saw, or to be cut asunder in the middle, Heb 11:37. This punishment was not unknown to the Hebrews. Some think it was originally from the Persians or Chaldeans. 9. Plucking out the eyes, Ex 21:24. Some think this punishment was seldom executed, but the offender was made to suffer in his property rather than in his person: yet there are some instances on record, Jg 16:21; 1Sa 11:2; 2Ki 25:7. 10. The cutting off the extremities of the feet and hands, Jg 1:5-7; 2Sa 4:12.
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And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication. And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned.
In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burned with fire.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening; and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great heap of stones, which remains to this day.
They came upon Ado'ni-be'zek at Bezek, and fought against him, and defeated the Canaanites and the Per'izzites. Ado'ni-be'zek fled; but they pursued him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. read more. And Ado'ni-be'zek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and their great toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has requited me." And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubba'al, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubba'al was left, for he hid himself.
And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with bronze fetters; and he ground at the mill in the prison.
And the children of Judah took ten thousand captive, alive, and brought them to the top of the cliff, and cast them down from the top of the cliff, so that they all were broken in pieces.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. And the king's wrath was appeased.
But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.
Women received their dead again by resurrection; and others were tortured, not having accepted deliverance, that they might get a better resurrection;
They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated,