Thematic Bible: Criminals often


Thematic Bible



And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron. Verse ConceptsGallowsHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMutilationPoolsDisfigurementSkullsCutting Off Hands And FeetAnother's Burial PlacePeople Hung To DeathKilling Named Individuals

then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall have no pity. Verse ConceptsKnivesCutting Off Hands And FeetShow No Mercymanhoodpitycutting

Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored. Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age


But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

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