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 your daughter-in-law has played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by harlotry. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree; and the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.
Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
And the daughter of any priest, if she defiles herself by playing the harlot, she defiles her father: she shall be burned with fire.
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise on it a great heap of stones, that remains unto this day.
And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. read more. And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered scraps under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: nevertheless yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he did grind in the prison house.
And another ten thousand left alive did the children of Judah carry away captive, and brought them unto the top of the rock, and cast them down from the top of the rock, that they all were dashed to pieces.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath abated.
And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John the Baptist's head on a platter.
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented;