Punishments

Punishments

Antiquity of - Ge 4:13,14

Power of inflicting, given to magistrates - Job 31:11; Ro 13:4

Designed to be a warning to others - De 13:11; 17:13; 19:20

WERE INFLICTED

• On the guilty
- De 24:16; Pr 17:26
• Without pity
- De 19:13,21
• Without partiality
- De 13:6-8
• By order of magistrates
- Ac 16:22
• By order of kings
- 2Sa 1:13-16; 1Ki 2:23-46
• Immediately after sentence was passed
- De 25:2; Jos 7:25
• By the witnesses
- De 13:9; 17:7; Joh 8:7; Ac 7:58,59
• By the people
- Nu 15:35,36; De 13:9
• By soldiers
- 2Sa 1:15; Mt 27:27-35

Sometimes deferred until God was consulted - Nu 15:34

Sometimes deferred for a considerable time - 1Ki 2:5,6,8,9

SECONDARY KINDS OF

• Imprisonment
- Ezr 7:26; Mt 5:25
• Confinement in a dungeon
- Jer 38:6; Zec 9:11
• Confinement in stocks
- Jer 20:2; Ac 16:24
• Fine, or giving of money
- Ex 21:22; De 22:19
• Restitution
- Ex 21:36; 22:1-4; Le 6:4,5; 24:18
• Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done
- Ex 21:24; De 19:21
• Binding with chains and fetters
- Ps 105:18
• Scourging
- De 25:2,3; Mt 27:26; Ac 22:25; 2Co 11:24
• Selling the criminal
- Mt 18:25
• Banishment
- Ezr 7:26; Re 1:9
• Torturing
- Mt 18:34; Heb 11:37
• Putting out the eyes
- Jud 16:21; 1Sa 11:2
• Cutting off hands and feet
- 2Sa 4:12
• Mutilating the hands and feet
- Jud 1:5-7
• Cutting off nose and ears
- Eze 23:25
• Plucking out the hair
- Ne 13:25; Isa 50:6
• Confiscating the property
- Ezr 7:26

Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans - Joh 18:31

CAPITAL KINDS OF

• Burning
- Ge 38:24; Le 20:14; Da 3:6
• Hanging
- Nu 25:4; De 21:22,23; Jos 8:29; 2Sa 21:12; Es 7:9,10
• Crucifying
- Mt 20:19; 27:35
• Beheading
- Ge 40:19; Mr 6:16,27
• Slaying with the sword
- 1Sa 15:33; Ac 12:2
• Stoning
- Le 24:14; De 13:10; Ac 7:59
• Cutting in pieces
- Da 2:5; Mt 24:51
• Sawing asunder
- Heb 11:37
• Exposing to wild beasts
- Da 6:16,24; 1Co 15:32
• Bruising in mortars
- Pr 27:22
• Casting headlong from a rock
- 2Ch 25:12
• Casting into the sea
- Mt 18:6

Strangers not exempted from - Le 20:2

Were sometimes commuted - Ex 21:29,30

For murder not to be commuted - Nu 35:31,32