Thematic Bible: Minor offenses


Thematic Bible



Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars



the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; 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



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 your brother should seem vile to you.

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A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

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

To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted." Verse ConceptsSuffering, HardshipThe Ark In JerusalemDeserving Death

The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, "Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and don't go out from there anywhere. For on the day you go out, and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you shall surely die: your blood shall be on your own head." Shimei said to the king, "The saying is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do." Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

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 custody. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail