9 Bible Verses about Beating People
Most Relevant Verses
" 'And if men quarrel and a man strikes his neighbor with a stone or with a fist and he does not die, but {he is confined to bed},
And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.
And {whoever strikes} his father or his mother will surely be put to death.
burn in place of burn, wound in place of wound, bruise in place of bruise.
then it will happen if the guilty [one] {deserves beating}, then the judge shall make him lie, and he shall beat him {before him}, {according to} {the prescribed number of lashes proportionate to the offense}. He may beat him [with] forty lashes, and he shall not do more [than these], so that he [will] not beat more in addition to these many blows, and your countryman would be degraded before your eyes.
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Advice On Beating People
Proverbs 17:26Also, imposing a fine on the righteous is not good, [nor] to flog nobles for uprightness.
God Beating People
1 Kings 14:15Yahweh will strike Israel as one shakes the reed plant in the water, and he will root Israel up from this good land that he gave to their ancestors. He will scatter them beyond the River because they have made their sacred poles [which are] provoking Yahweh.