Thematic Bible: Minor offenses


Thematic Bible



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



the chief captain commanded him be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

They then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; they shall be punished; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free. Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin



And the elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him; Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number. Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

I will therefore chastise him, and release him. Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord Jehovah before David my father, and because thou wast afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted. Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither. For on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, know thou for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head. And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

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