Thematic Bible: Modes of execution


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Then all the congregation said to stone them with stones. But the glory of the LORD appeared at the tent of meeting to all the people of Israel. Verse ConceptsGlory, Revelation OfAppearances Of God In OtStoningTheophanyFear Of Stoning

And set two worthless men opposite him, and let them bring a charge against him, saying, 'You have cursed God and the king.' Then take him out and stone him to death." Verse Conceptsethics, socialPersecution, Forms OfSatan, As The Enemy Of GodTwo WitnessesTwo WitnessesCursing GodKilling Named Individuals

"Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him. Verse ConceptsCongregationDeath penaltyCamps, Unclean ThingsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfLaying On Of HandsHands On HeadsOutside The CampLaying On Hands For EvilInstructions About Stoning

And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The LORD brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. Verse ConceptsThe DeadTrouble, Causes OfDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRetributionBurning PeopleTroubling Groups Of PeopleFamily Death

"A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood shall be upon them." Verse ConceptsAstrologyFamiliar SpiritsDeath penaltyMale And FemaleSorcery And MagicSpiritismWitchcraftFortunetellingNecromancyAvoid SpiritismInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresywitchespsychics

then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Verse ConceptsdisgraceBanishmentPunishment, Legal Aspects OfDeath Penalty For Sexual SinInstructions About StoningsexDeath Of A MotherDeath Of A FatherSex Before MarriageFamily DeathFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughtersmistresspremaritalwhoresvirginity

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you shall stone that man or woman to death with stones. Verse ConceptsGatesPunishment, Legal Aspects OfBusiness At The GatewayInstructions About Stoning

"Say to the people of Israel, Any one of the people of Israel or of the strangers who sojourn in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." read more.
And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfGroups Of SlavesInstructions About StoningGod Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

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then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Verse ConceptsComing To GatesInstructions About Stoning

They shall bring up a crowd against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords. Verse ConceptsPeople Cut In PiecesFear Of Stoning

And I will direct my jealousy against you, that they may deal with you in fury. They shall cut off your nose and your ears, and your survivors shall fall by the sword. They shall seize your sons and your daughters, and your survivors shall be devoured by fire. Verse ConceptsdisabilitiesGod, Zeal OfJealousyMutilationNosesDisfigurementSurvivors DestroyedKilled With The SwordBurning PeopleChildren SufferingSevering Body Parts

About three months later Judah was told, "Tamar your daughter-in-law has been immoral. Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality." And Judah said, "Bring her out, and let her be burned." Verse ConceptsProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSexual Sin, Nature OfTwo To Four MonthsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinTelling Of People's Situations

If a man takes a woman and her mother also, it is depravity; he and they shall be burned with fire, that there may be no depravity among you. Verse ConceptsAbominationsCremationPunishment, Legal Aspects OfForbidden Sexual RelationshipsBurning PeopleDeath Penalty For Sexual SinMarriage ControlledSex Before MarriageSame Sex Marriage

And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; she shall be burned with fire. Verse ConceptsdaughtersCremationAdulterersProfanityProstitutionPunishment, Legal Aspects OfHarlotsBurning Peoplebranding

Because of them this curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: "The LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire," Verse ConceptsBurning PeopleLike Bad PeopleCursing The Ungodly

Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with fury, and the expression of his face was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He ordered the furnace heated seven times more than it was usually heated. And he ordered some of the mighty men of his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace. Then these men were bound in their cloaks, their tunics, their hats, and their other garments, and they were thrown into the burning fiery furnace. read more.
Because the king's order was urgent and the furnace overheated, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell bound into the burning fiery furnace.


Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and struck him down and put him to death. And he was buried in his own house in the wilderness. Verse ConceptsSwordsLiving In The WildernessKilling Named Individuals

So King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he struck him down, and he died. Verse ConceptsMurder

And he said to them, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Put your sword on your side each of you, and go to and fro from gate to gate throughout the camp, and each of you kill his brother and his companion and his neighbor.'" And the sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses. And that day about three thousand men of the people fell.

Then the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck him down, and he died. So the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon. Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTKilling Named IndividualsThe Kingdom Of Solomon

And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. Verse ConceptsBody Of Christ, Physical DeathDeath penaltyCrucifixion, Of ChristPainTortureCalvarySkullsChrist Was KilledCrucifiedOthers CrucifiedBurying placesassertivenesscrucifixion



And they crucified him and divided his garments among them, casting lots for them, to decide what each should take. Verse ConceptsClothingChanceCrucifixion, Of ChristTortureGamblingChrist Was KilledDividing Plunder


And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day. Verse ConceptsGallowsGatesHangingPunishment, Legal Aspects OfSunsetsCairnsPeople Hung To DeathPlaces To This Day

"And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

But he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPeople Hung To Death


But when Herod heard of it, he said, "John, whom I beheaded, has been raised." Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfMartyrdom, Methods OfBeheading

And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. Verse ConceptsCrimesevangelists, ministry ofMartyrdom, Examples OfMartyrdom Of The SaintsMartyrdom, Methods OfOutside The City

The hand of the witnesses shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. Verse ConceptsBeing Firstevil, warnings againstBanishmentPurity, Moral And SpiritualWitnesses, LegalFirst To Act

But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. Verse ConceptsApproval To KillFirst To ActDeath Of A Family Member

But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. Verse ConceptsApproval To KillFirst To ActDeath Of A Family Member

And the LORD said to Moses, "The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside the camp." And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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