Thematic Bible: Minor offenses
Thematic Bible
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.
Wishing to please the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. Then he handed over Jesus. He was flogged and impaled.
The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the barracks. He told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him.
At once the men who were going to question Paul drew back from him. The commander was frightened when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains.
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.
He set Barabbas free. He had Jesus whipped. Then he commanded that he be put to death on the stake.
Then Pilate took Jesus and whipped him.
If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt. He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
Punishment » Minor offenses » Confinement » Within limits
The king spoke to Abiathar the priest: Go to your fields at Anathoth. You deserve death. But I will not put you to death now, because you carried the Ark of Jehovah God before David my father. You were with him in all his troubles.
The king sent for Shimei and said to him: Build a house for yourself here in Jerusalem. Live in it and do not leave the city. If you ever leave and go beyond Kidron Brook, you will die and it will be your fault. As you say, Your Majesty, Shimei answered. I will do what you say. So he lived in Jerusalem a long time.
Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Imprisonment
and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison,