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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About three months later Judah was told, "Your daughter-in-law has been acting like a prostitute, and now she is pregnant." "Bring her out!" Judah said. "Let her be burned [to death]!"
In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head-from off you-and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body."
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
If a priest's daughter defiles herself by promiscuity, she defiles her father; she must be burned up.
He hung [the body of] the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take his body down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and put a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.
They found Adoni-bezek in Bezek, fought against him, and struck down the Canaanites and Perizzites. When Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. read more. Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up [scraps] under my table. God has repaid me for what I have done." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
He went to his father's house in Ophrah and killed his 70 brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, on top of a large stone. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.
The Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes. They brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles, and he was forced to grind grain in the prison.
and the Judahites captured 10,000 alive. They took them to the top of a cliff where they threw them off, and all of them were dashed to pieces.
They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's anger subsided.
And prompted by her mother, she answered, "Give me John the Baptist's head here on a platter!"
Women received their dead raised to life again. Some men were tortured, not accepting release, so that they might gain a better resurrection,
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they died by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, and mistreated.