Reference: Punishments
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The penalties inflicted in ancient times for various crimes and offences, varied in different nations, and at different times. Capital punishment for murder is generally agreed to have been permanently instituted at the origin of the human race; and Cain was only saved from it by a special interposition of God, Ge 4:14-15. It was reenacted, with reasons, after the deluge, Ge 9:5-6, and in the wilderness, Nu 35:9-34; and was early and widely recognized among mankind.
The mode of capital punishment usual among the Hebrew was stoning, De 13:9-10; Jos 17:18; Joh 8:7; but various other modes became known to them by intercourse with other nations: as decapitation, 2Ki 10:6-8; Mt 14:8-12; precipitation from rocks, 2Ch 25:12; Lu 4:29; hanging, Jos 8:29; Es 7:10; burning, Da 3; cutting asunder, Da 2:5; 3:29; Heb 11:27; beating, on a wheel-like frame, Heb 11:35; exposure to wild beasts, Da 6; 1Co 15:32; drowning, Mt 18:6; bruising in a mortar, Pr 27:22; and crucifixion, Joh 19:18.
Minor punishments were scourging, Le 19:20; 2Co 11:24; retaliation in kind for an injury done, Ex 21:23-25; De 19:19; imprisonment, 2Ch 16:10; Mt 4:12; the stocks, Ac 16:24; banishment, Re 1:9; and personal torture, 2Ch 18:26; Isa 50:6; Mt 18:30; Heb 11:37.
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You are driving me from the land today. I will be hidden from your presence. I will be a restless (homeless) wanderer on the earth. And whoever finds me will kill me. Jehovah replied to him: If anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over. Then Jehovah put a mark on Cain so that no one who found him would kill him.
I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.
The payment will be for life if she is seriously injured, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, read more. burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
If a man has sexual intercourse with a female slave who is engaged to another man and if her freedom was never bought or given to her, they should not be put to death. He will only pay a fine because she is a slave.
Jehovah continued to speak to Moses: Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan, read more. select certain cities to be places of refuge. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may run to them. These cities will be places of refuge from any relative who can avenge the death. So anyone accused of murder will not have to die until he has had a trial in front of the community. There will be six cities you select as places of refuge. Three will be on the east side of the Jordan River and three in Canaan. These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities. If any of you uses an iron weapon to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. If any of you picks up a stone as a weapon and uses it to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. And if any of you picks up a piece of wood as a weapon and uses it to kill another person, you are a murderer. Murderers must be put to death. The relative who can avenge the death must make sure a murderer is put to death. When he catches up with the murderer, he must kill him. If any of you kills someone you hate by shoving him or by deliberately throwing something at him, or if you beat your enemy to death with your bare hands, you must be put to death. You are a murderer. The relative who can avenge the death must kill you when he catches up with you, because you are a murderer. Should you accidentally kill someone who was not your enemy. Maybe you shoved him or threw something at him but did not mean to kill him. Or if you drop a big stone, and someone is killed. However, you did not know the person was there, he was not your enemy, and you were not trying to harm him. Then the community must use these rules in order to decide if you are innocent or if the dead person's relative can avenge the death. If you are innocent, the community must protect you from that relative. They must take you back to the city of refuge you fled to. You must live there until the death of the chief priest who was anointed with the holy oil. But do not go outside the city of refuge you fled to. If the relative who can avenge the death finds you outside the city of refuge and kills you, the relative is not guilty of murder. Accused murderers must stay in their city of refuge until the death of the chief priest. They may go back to their own property only after his death. These rules apply to you and your descendants wherever you may live. Those accused of murder may be found guilty and put to death only on the evidence of two or more witnesses. The evidence of one witness is not sufficient to support an accusation of murder. Murderers must be put to death. They cannot escape this penalty by the payment of money. If they have fled to a city of refuge, do not allow them to make a payment in order to return home before the death of the High Priest. If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered. Do not defile the land where you are living! I am Jehovah and I live among the people of Israel.
You must kill him! Your hand should be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Stone him to death because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
do to him what he planned to do to the other person. Get rid of this evil.
He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening. As soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they take his carcass down from the tree and throw it at the entering gate of the city. They raised a large pile of rocks over it that is there to this day.
The mountain will be yours. For it is a wood, and you will cut it down. The farthest limits will be yours. You will drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they are strong.
Jehu wrote them another letter: If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care and were being brought up by the leading citizens of Samaria. As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. read more. Jehu was informed that the heads of Ahab's descendants had been brought. He ordered them to be piled up in two heaps at the city gate and left there until the following morning.
Asa was so angry with the prophet that he had him put in chains. It was at this same time that Asa began treating some of the people cruelly.
Say: This is what the king says: 'Put this man in prison, and feed him nothing but bread and water until I return home safely.'
The Judeans captured another ten thousand alive. They took them to the top of a cliff, and threw them off the top of the cliff so that they were dismembered.
So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he made for Mordecai. Then the king's rage subsided.
Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.
I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.
The king answered: I have decided. If you do not make the dream known to me and it's interpretation you will be cut in pieces, and your houses will be made a dunghill (foul smelling pile of rubbish).
Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut into pieces. Their houses shall be made a dunghill. There is no other god that is able to deliver like this.
Jesus heard that John had been arrested. So Jesus withdrew to Galilee.
Prompted by her mother, she said: Give me John the Baptist's head on a platter. The king was grieved. He gave his oath and many were watching so he commanded that it be done. read more. He gave the order to behead John in prison. His head was brought on a platter to the young lady. She in turn gave it to her mother. John the Baptist's disciples took the corpse and buried him, and then came and told Jesus.
He who causes one of my faithful little ones to stumble is in trouble. It would be better for him to end up in the deep sea with a great stone tied to his neck.
He would not give him time. He put him into prison till he paid the debt.
They rose up to drive him out of the city. They led him to the top of the hill where their city was built to throw him down the hill.
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They impaled him there. Two others were impaled and Jesus stake was placed in the middle.
Receiving this command he threw them into the inner prison, and fastened their feet in the stocks.
If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage was it to me if the dead do not rise? Let us eat and drink for tomorrow we die.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the anger of the king. He endured, by seeing him who is invisible.
Women received their dead by a resurrection, and others were tortured, not accepting their deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection:
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
I, John, your brother and companion in tribulation and kingdom and perseverance (patience) of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, because of the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
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(See CROSS, etc.) Death was the punishment of striking or even reviling a parent (Ex 21:15,17); blasphemy (Le 24:14,16,23); Sabbath-breaking (Nu 15:32-36); witchcraft (Ex 22:18); adultery (Le 20:10); rape (De 22:25); incestuous and unnatural connection (Le 20:11,14,16); man stealing (Ex 21:16); idolatry (Le 20:2). "Cutting off from the people" is ipso facto excommunication or outlawry, forfeiture of the privileges of the covenant people (Le 18:29). The hand of God executed the sentence in some cases (Ge 17:14; Le 23:30; 20:3,6; Nu 4:15,18,20). Capital punishments were stoning (Ex 17:4); burning (Le 20:14); the sword (Ex 32:27); and strangulation, not in Scripture, but in rabbinical writings.
The command (Nu 25:4-5) was that the Baal-peor sinners should be slain first, then impaled or nailed to crosses; the Hebrew there (hoqa) means dislocated, and is different from that in De 21:22 (thalitha toli), De 21:23. The hanged were accounted accursed; so were buried at evening, as the hanging body defiled the land; so Christ (Ga 3:13). The malefactor was to be removed by burial from off the face of the earth speedily, that the curse might be removed off the land (Le 18:25,28; 2Sa 21:6,9). Punishments not ordained by law: sawing asunder, and cutting with iron harrows(Isaiah, Heb 11:37; Ammon, in retaliation for their cruelties, 2Sa 12:31; 1Sa 11:2); pounding in a mortar (Pr 27:22); precipitation (Lu 4:29; 2Ch 25:12); stripes, 40 only allowed (De 25:3), the Jews therefore gave only 39; the convict received the stripes from a three-thonged whip, stripped to the waist, in a bent position, tied to a pillar; if the executioner exceeded the number he was punished, a minute accuracy observed in 2Co 11:24.
The Abyssinians use the same number (Wolff, Travels, 2:276). Heaps of stones were flung upon the graves of executed criminals (Jos 15:25-26; 2Sa 18:17); to this day stones are flung on Absalom's supposed tomb. Outside the city gates (Jer 22:19; Heb 13:12). Punishment in kind (lex talionis) was a common principle (Ex 21:24-25). Also compensation, restitution of the thing or its equivalent (Ex 21:18-36). Slander of a wife's honour was punished by fine and stripes (De 22:18-19).
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Any male not circumcised in the flesh will be cut off from his people. He has broken my covenant.
Moses cried out to Jehovah: What should I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me!
He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. Whoever kidnaps another person must be put to death regardless of whether he has sold the kidnapped person or still has him. read more. Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. When men quarrel and one hits the other with a rock or with his fist and injures him so that he has to stay in bed you must do this. If the injured man is able to stand up again and walk around outside with a cane, the one who hit him must not be punished. He must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and for all his medical expenses. If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished. If the slave lives a few days after the beating, you are not to be punished. After all, you have already lost the services of that slave who was your property. When a pregnant woman suffers a miscarriage as the result of an injury caused by someone who is fighting, if she is not badly hurt, the one who injured her must pay whatever fine her husband demands and the judges approve. The payment will be for life if she is seriously injured, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free because of his eye. read more. If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free because of his tooth. If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished. If an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution. He will give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his. If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally. They should divide the dead ox. If it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.
Never allow a witch to live.
He said to them, Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'Each man put his sword by his side. Go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp. Kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.'
The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it.
If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you. Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people.
Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death. I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. They gave one of their children to Molech. They made my holy tent unclean, and dishonored my holy name.
If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death. A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.
When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.
If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
The man who cursed my name must be taken outside the camp. All who heard him curse my name must lay their hands on his head. Then the whole congregation must stone him to death.
However those who curse Jehovah's name must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them to death. It makes no difference whether they are Israelites or foreigners. Whoever curses (abuses) Jehovah's name must die.
When Moses had said this to the people of Israel, they took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did what Jehovah commanded Moses.
When Aaron and his sons finished covering the holy things and the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites will come to carry all the holy articles. They must never touch the holy things, or they will die. The Kohathites will carry all the things from the tent of meeting.
However the Kohathites must not go in to look at the holy things, even for a moment, or they will die.
One time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation. read more. They held him in custody until they decided what to do with him. Jehovah said to Moses: This man must be put to death. The whole congregation must take him outside the camp and stone him. So the whole congregation took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Jehovah said to Moses: Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before Jehovah so that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel. Moses said to the judges of Israel: Each of you put to death those men who have joined in worshiping Baal of Peor.
If a man commits a sin worthy of death and he is put to death. You hang him on a tree (stake). His corpse must not hang all night on the tree (stake). Be sure to bury him the same day for he who is hanged is accursed of God. You do this so that you do not defile your land Jehovah your God gives you as an inheritance.
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, They will fine him a hundred shekels of silver. They will give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. She will remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
If an engaged woman is raped (forced to experience sex) only the man who commits the act will die.
He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
Though you grind a fool in mortar his foolishness will not depart from him.
He will be buried with a donkey's burial. He will be dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
They rose up to drive him out of the city. They led him to the top of the hill where their city was built to throw him down the hill.
Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. It is written; Cursed is everyone who is hung on a stake.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.
Jesus suffered outside the gate that he might sanctify the people through his own blood.
Hastings
Smith
Punishments.
The earliest theory of punishment current among mankind is doubtless the one of simple retaliation, "blood for blood." Viewed historically, the first case of punishment for crime mentioned in Scripture, next to the Fall itself, is that of Cain, the first murderer. That death was regarded as the fitting punishment for murder appears plain from the remark of Lamech.
In the post-diluvian code, if we may so call it, retribution by the hand of man, even in the case of an offending animal, for blood shed, is clearly laid dawn.
Passing onward to Mosaic times, we find the sentence of capital punishment, in the case of murder, plainly laid down in the law. The murderer was to be put to death, even if he should have taken refuge at God's altar or in a refuge city, and the same principle was to be carried out even in the case of an animal. Offences punished with death.-- I. The following offences also are mentioned in the law as liable to the punishment of death:
1. Striking, or even reviling, a parent.
2. Blasphemy.
3. Sabbath-breaking.
4. Witchcraft, and false pretension to prophecy.
Ex 22:18; Le 20:27; De 13:5; 18:20
5. Adultery.
Le 20:10; De 22:22
6. Unchastity.
Le 21:9; De 22:21,23
7. Rape.
De 22:25
8. Incestuous and unnatural connections.
9. Manstealing.
Ex 21:16; De 24:7
10. Idolatry, actual or virtual, in any shape.
Le 20:2; De 13:8,10,15; 17:2-7
see Josh 7:1 ... and Josh 22:20 and Numb 25:8
11. False witness in certain cases.
De 19:16,19
II. But there is a large number of offences, some of them included in this list, which are named in the law as involving the,penalty of "cutting off from the people. On the meaning of this expression some controversy has arisen. There are altogether thirty six or thirty seven cases in the Pentateuch in which this formula is used. We may perhaps conclude that the primary meaning of "cutting off" is a sentence of death to be executed in some cases without remission, but in others voidable -- (1) by immediate atonement on the offender's part; (2) by direct interposition of the Almighty i.e., a sentence of death always "regarded," but not always executed. Kinds of punishments. --Punishments are twofold, Capital and Secondary. I. Capital. (A) The following only are prescribed by the law:
1. Stoning, which was the ordinary mode of execution.
Ex 17:4; Lu 20:6; Joh 10:31; Ac 14:5
In the case of idolatry, and it may be presumed in other cases also, the witnesses, of whom there were to be at least two, were required to cast the first stone.
De 13:9; Ac 7:58
2. Hanging is mentioned as a distinct punishment.
3. Burning, in pre-Mosaic times, was the punishment for unchastity.
Under the law it was ordered in the case of a priest's daughter
4. Death by the sword or spear is named in the law,
and it occurs frequently in regal and post-Babylonian times.
etc.
5. Strangling is said by the rabbis to have been regarded as the most common but least severe of the capital punishments, and to have been performed by immersing the convict in clay or mud, and then strangling him by a cloth twisted round the neck. (B) Besides these ordinary capital punishments, we read of others, either of foreign introduction or of an irregular kind. Among the former
1. CRUCIFIXION is treated elsewhere.
See Crucifixion
2. Drowning, though not ordered under the law, was practiced at Rome, and is said by St. Jerome to have been in use among the Jews.
3. Sawing asunder or crushing beneath iron instruments.
and perhaps
4. Pounding in a mortar, or beating to death, is alluded to in
but not as a legal punishment, and cases are described. 2 Macc. 6:28,30.
5. Precipitation, attempted in the case of our Lord at Nazareth, and carried out in that of captives from the Edomites, and of St. James, who is said to have been cast from "the pinnacle" of the temple. Criminals executed by law were burned outside the city gates, and heaps of stones were flung upon their graves.
Jos 7:25-26; 2Sa 18:17; Jer 22:19
II. Of secondary punishments among the Jews, the original Principles were,
1. Retaliation, "eye for eye," etc.
2. Compensation, Identical (restitution)or analogous payment for loss of time or of power.
Ex 21:18-36; Le 24:18-21; De 19:21
Slander against a wife's honor was to be compensated to her parents by a fine of one hundred shekels, and the traducer himself to be punished with stripes
De 22:18-19
3. Stripes, whose number was not to exceed forty,
De 25:3
whence the Jews took care not to exceed thirty-nine.
4. Scourging with thorns is mentioned
The stocks are mentioned
passing through fire,
mutilation,
2 Macc. 7:4, and see
plucking out hair,
in later times, imprisonment and confiscation or exile.
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If Cain is avenged seven times, then Lamech seventy-seven times.
I will require your lifeblood as an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. I will demand an accounting from each man for the life of his fellow man. Whoever sheds the blood of man will have his blood shed by man. For man was made in the image of God.
Three months later Judah was told: Your daughter-in-law Tamar is guilty of prostitution, and as a result she is now pregnant. Judah said: Bring her out and have her burned to death!
Moses cried out to Jehovah: What should I do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me!
with stones or arrows, and no one must touch the body of a person killed in this way. Even an animal that touches this mountain must be put to death. You may go up the mountain only after a signal is given on the trumpet.
He who strikes (beats) his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. Whoever kidnaps another person must be put to death regardless of whether he has sold the kidnapped person or still has him. read more. Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death. When men quarrel and one hits the other with a rock or with his fist and injures him so that he has to stay in bed you must do this. If the injured man is able to stand up again and walk around outside with a cane, the one who hit him must not be punished. He must pay the injured man for the loss of his time and for all his medical expenses. If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished. If the slave lives a few days after the beating, you are not to be punished. After all, you have already lost the services of that slave who was your property. When a pregnant woman suffers a miscarriage as the result of an injury caused by someone who is fighting, if she is not badly hurt, the one who injured her must pay whatever fine her husband demands and the judges approve. The payment will be for life if she is seriously injured, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.
burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free because of his eye. read more. If he knocks out a tooth of his male or female slave, he shall let him go free because of his tooth. If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished. If an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned. If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restitution. He will give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall become his. If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally. They should divide the dead ox. If it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.
Never allow a witch to live. The person who has sexual intercourse with an animal must be put to death.
You are to observe the Sabbath. It is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it will absolutely be put to death. Whoever does any work on it will be removed from his people.
He said to them, Jehovah, the God of Israel says: 'Each man put his sword by his side. Go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp. Kill each one his brother, and each one his neighbor, and each one his kindred.'
You may work for six days. The seventh day is a holy day of worship (a Sabbath). It is a day when you do not work. It is dedicated to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on this day should be put to death.
Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death.
If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman should be put to death. A man who has intercourse with one of his father's wives disgraces his father. Both he and the woman must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
When a man marries a woman and her mother, they have done a perverted thing. The man and the two women must be burned. Never do this perverted thing.
If a woman tries to have sexual relations with an animal, she and the animal must be put to death. They are responsible for their own death.
If you claim to receive messages from the dead, you will be put to death by stoning, just as you deserve.
When a priest's daughter dishonors herself by becoming a prostitute, she dishonors her father. She must be burned.
The man who cursed my name must be taken outside the camp. All who heard him curse my name must lay their hands on his head. Then the whole congregation must stone him to death.
However those who curse Jehovah's name must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them to death. It makes no difference whether they are Israelites or foreigners. Whoever curses (abuses) Jehovah's name must die.
Whoever kills an animal must replace it, life for life. Should any of you injure another person, whatever you have done shall be done to you. read more. If you break a bone, one of your bones must be broken. If you put out an eye, one of your eyes must be put out. Should you knock out a tooth, one of your teeth shall be knocked out. Whatever injury you cause another person must be done to you in return. Whoever kills an animal shall replace it, but whoever kills a human being shall be put to death.
When Moses had said this to the people of Israel, they took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death. The people of Israel did what Jehovah commanded Moses.
One time, while the Israelites were still in the wilderness, a man was found gathering firewood on the Sabbath. He was taken to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation. read more. They held him in custody until they decided what to do with him. Jehovah said to Moses: This man must be put to death. The whole congregation must take him outside the camp and stone him. So the whole congregation took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as Jehovah commanded Moses.
Jehovah said to Moses: Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before Jehovah so that the fierce anger of Jehovah may turn away from Israel.
Phinehas, son of Eleazar and grandson of the priest Aaron, saw this. He left the assembly and grabbed a spear in his hand.
Put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against Jehovah. For he (Jehovah) rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the life that Jehovah has commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to get rid of this evil.
Do not yield to him or listen to him. Your eye should not have pity on him. You should not spare or conceal him. You must kill him! Your hand should be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. read more. Stone him to death because he has sought to draw you away from Jehovah your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it and all that is in it and its cattle with the edge of the sword.
In one of the cities Jehovah your God is giving you, there may be a man or woman among you who is doing what Jehovah considers evil. This person may be disregarding the conditions of Jehovah's covenant. Some worship and bow down to other gods, the sun, the moon, or the whole army of heaven. I have forbidden this. read more. If it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, Bring that man or woman who has done this evil deed out to your gates. Stone the man or the woman to death. On the evidence and testimony of two witnesses or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. He shall not be put to death on the evidence of one witness. The witnesses must throw the first stone to put him to death, and afterward all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Any prophet who dares to say something in my name that I did not command him to say or who speaks in the name of other gods must die.
This is what you must do whenever a witness takes the stand to accuse a person falsely of a crime.
do to him what he planned to do to the other person. Get rid of this evil.
Have no pity on him: Take a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, They will fine him a hundred shekels of silver. They will give it to the girl's father, because he publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. She will remain his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
they will take the girl to the doorway of her father's house. The men of her city shall stone her to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel by playing the harlot in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you. If a man is caught having sexual intercourse with another mans wife, then both of them shall die! Both the man and the woman committing adultery must be killed. Thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. read more. Suppose there is a girl who is a virgin engaged to a man, and another man has sexual relations with her.
If an engaged woman is raped (forced to experience sex) only the man who commits the act will die.
He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
Joshua said: Why have you troubled us? Jehovah will trouble you this day. All Israel stoned them with stones. After they stoned them they burned them with fire. They raised over them a great heap of stones that is there to this day. So Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger. The name of that place was called, the Valley of Achor, to this day.
David gave the order for his soldiers to kill Rechab and Baanah and cut off their hands and feet. They killed them and hung their hands and feet near the pool in Hebron. They took Ishbosheth's head and buried it in Abner's tomb there at Hebron.
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
David made the people of Rabbah tear down the city walls with iron picks and axes. He also put them to work making bricks. He did the same thing with all the other Ammonite cities. David went back to Jerusalem. The people of Israel returned to their homes.
So Benaiah went to the Tent of Jehovah's presence and killed Joab. He was buried at his home in the wilderness.
King Ahab told his wife Jezebel everything Elijah had done. He told how he put all the prophets of Baal to death.
If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, take care that punishment is given to him. This is by death or by driving him from his country or by taking away his goods or by putting him in prison.
I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.
Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.
He will be buried with a donkey's burial. He will be dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
The officials were so angry with Jeremiah that they beat him and put him in prison in the scribe Jonathan's house, which had been turned into a prison.
So they took me and let me down by ropes into Prince Malchiah's well, which was in the palace courtyard. There was no water in the well, only mud, and I sank down in it.
If we say from men all the people will stone us. They are persuaded that John was a prophet.
They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day for it was already evening.
They captured the apostles and put them in the common prison.
They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at a young man's feet. His name was Saul.
When he apprehended him, he put him in prison. He turned him over to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him. After Passover he would be presented to the people.
Then some of the people of the nations and Jews, together with their leaders, decided to mistreat the apostles and stone them.
Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one.
They were stoned, they were sawed in two, were tempted, were slain with the sword; they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented.