9 Bible Verses about Beating People

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Exodus 21:18

And if men contend, and one smite the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keep his bed;

Exodus 21:20

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall surely be punished.

Exodus 21:25

burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

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 thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

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Proverbs 17:26

Also to punish the righteous is not good, Nor to smite the noble for their uprightness.

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1 Kings 14:15

For Jehovah will smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water; and he will root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers, and will scatter them beyond the River, because they have made their Asherim, provoking Jehovah to anger.

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