Thematic Bible: Minor offenses


Thematic Bible



Stripes that wound scour away evil,
And strokes reach the innermost parts.
Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars



the commander ordered him to be brought into the barracks, stating that he should be examined by scourging so that he might find out the reason why they were shouting against him that way. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

Therefore those who were about to examine him immediately let go of him; and the commander also was afraid when he found out that he was a Roman, and because he had put him in chains. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

Now if a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free. Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin



So the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

then it shall be if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of stripes according to his guilt. "He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.

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A rebuke goes deeper into one who has understanding
Than a hundred blows into a fool.
Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.” Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

Then to Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth to your own field, for you deserve to die; but I will not put you to death at this time, because you carried the ark of the Lord God before my father David, and because you were afflicted in everything with which my father was afflicted.” Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

Now the king sent and called for Shimei and said to him, "Build for yourself a house in Jerusalem and live there, and do not go out from there to any place. "For on the day you go out and cross over the brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shall surely die; your blood shall be on your own head." Shimei then said to the king, "The word is good. As my lord the king has said, so your servant will do." So Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

So Joseph’s master took him and put him into the jail, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined; and he was there in the jail. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail