Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals

In the lips of him who has discernment wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding. Verse ConceptsBackParental DisciplineLipsProverbsMan's WisdomDiscernment




[As] an archer who wounds all, so is he who hires a fool, and he who hires those who pass by. Verse ConceptsChanceHiringWounds

Stripes that wound cleanse away evil, and strokes, the innermost parts. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars


And Pilate, wanting to do what was sufficent for the crowd, released Barabbas to them. And he delivered Jesus, after scourging, so that he might be crucified. Verse ConceptsFloggingBody Of Christ, Physical SufferingDeath penaltyHumiliationPunishment, Legal Aspects OfPeer PressureBarabbasScourgingWhipsHanding Over ChristBeating JesusWhippingPeople Set Free By Peoplecrucifixion

the chief captain commanded him be brought into the fort, having said to examine him by scourging, so that he might know for what reason they shouted against him this way. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

Straightway therefore those who were about to examine him withdrew from him. And the chief captain was also afraid when he learned that he was a Roman, and because he was who bound him. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

And whoever lays carnally with a woman, who 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 iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lay down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his iniquity, by number. He may give him forty stripes. He shall not exceed, lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem debased to thee.

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

Therefore, having scourged I will release him. Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

Scoffers set a city in a flame, but wise men turn away wrath. Verse ConceptsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScoffersWorldly Snaresmockers



Therefore hear the word of LORD, ye scoffers, who rule this people that is in Jerusalem. Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are at agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hid ourselves unde


A scoffer seeks wisdom, and [finds it] not, but knowledge is easy to him who has understanding. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMockeryRidicule, Nature OfInfidelity To GodIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledgemockers


The curse of LORD is in the house of a wicked man, but he blesses the habitation of the righteous. Surely {the Lord is opposed to the arrogant (LXX/NT)}, but he gives grace to the lowly.



Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed. He gave them all into his Verse ConceptsKingsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtArmies, Against IsraelBrutality

For the terrible one is brought to nothing, and the scoffer ceases. And all those who watch for iniquity are cut off, Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them. Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.