Reference: Stoning
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Was a punishment much in use among the Hebrews, and the rabbins reckon all crimes as being subject to it, which the law condemns to death without expressing the particular mode. They say that when a man was condemned to death, he was led out of the city to the place of execution, and there exhorted to acknowledge and confess his fault. He was then stoned in one of two ways; either stones were thrown upon him till he died, or he was thrown headlong down a steep place, and a large stone rolled upon his body. The former was the usual mode; and the witnesses were required to cast the first stones, De 17:5-7; for which purpose they sometimes threw off their outer garments, Ac 7:58. To they latter mode it is supposed there is a reference in Mt 21:44. So also in Lu 4:29, where compare NAZARETH.
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Easton
a form of punishment (Le 20:2; 24:14; De 13:10; 17:5; 22:21) prescribed for certain offences. Of Achan (Jos 7:25), Naboth (1Ki 21), Stephen (Ac 7:59), Paul (Ac 14:19; 2Co 11:25).
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Morish
This was a capital punishment enjoined in the law for certain offences. Stones were thrown at the person until he was dead. In the case of Stephen he kneeled down. If the stones were aimed at the head a person would soon be stunned and fall. Paul was stoned and left for dead, but revived as the disciples stood around him. More than once the Jews took up stones to kill the Lord, but He escaped out of their hands; His death must be by being 'lifted up' from the earth. Nu 15:35; Joh 10:31; Ac 7:58-59; 2Co 11:25.
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Smith
Stoning.
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