Thematic Bible


Thematic Bible



A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the fool's back. Verse ConceptsFolly, Effects OfBridlesBackBeatingsWhipsWhippingBinding As Animals

Wisdom is found on the lips of the understanding (discerning). A rod is for the back of him who lacks understanding. Verse ConceptsBackParental DisciplineLipsProverbsMan's WisdomDiscernment




The great God who formed all things rewards the fool as well as the sinner with wages. Verse ConceptsChanceHiringWounds

It takes a painful experience to cleanse our hearts. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars



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. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

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. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

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. 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

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.

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Reproof influences a wise man more than a hundred stripes does to a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

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

Scornful men bring a city into a snare. Wise men turn away anger. Verse ConceptsMockeryRidicule, Nature OfScoffersWorldly Snaresmockers



Therefore hear the word of Jehovah, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, Because you have said: We have made a covenant with death, and with the grave we are in agreement. When the overflowing scourge passes through, it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge. We have hidden under falsehood!


A scoffer seeks wisdom and does not find it. Knowledge is easy to him who discerns. Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfMockeryRidicule, Nature OfInfidelity To GodIntellectual KnowledgeValuing Knowledgemockers

How long, you simple (stupid) (foolish) ones, will you love simplicity (foolishness) (stupidity)? The scoffers delight in scoffing. Fools hate knowledge! Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfPleasureRejection Of Spiritual InstructionFools, Description OfInfidelity To GodFools Becoming WiseBefore People ActHating GoodLoving EvilSimplicitymockers

Jehovah puts a curse on the homes of the wicked, but blesses the homes of the just. He has no use for conceited people. He shows loving kindness to the humble.



So he had the Babylonian king attack them and execute their best young men in their holy temple. He did not spare the best men or the unmarried women, the old people or the sick people. God handed all of them over to him. Verse ConceptsKingsProphecy, Fulfilment Of OtArmies, Against IsraelBrutality

All who are cruel and arrogant will be extinguished. Those who live by crime will be removed. Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toMockeryInfidelity To GodUncharitablenessWatching To EntrapPeople EndedScoffersmockers

You will give them their reward, O Jehovah. Answer the work of their hands. You will cover their hearts with your curse on them. You will go after them in anger and annihilate them from under the heavens of Jehovah.