Punishments
67 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
36 sections
- Antiquity of
- Capital Kinds of Beheading
- Capital Kinds of Bruising in Mortars
- Capital Kinds of Burning
- Capital Kinds of Casting Headlong from a Rock
- Capital Kinds of Casting Into the Sea
- Capital Kinds of Crucifying
- Capital Kinds of Cutting in Pieces
- Capital Kinds of Exposing to Wild Beasts
- Capital Kinds of Hanging
- Capital Kinds of Sawing Asunder
- Capital Kinds of Slaying with the Sword
- Capital Kinds of Stoning
- Designed to be a Warning to Others
- Inflicting of Capital, not Permitted to the Jews by The
- Power of Inflicting, Given to Magistrates
- Secondary Kinds of Banishment
- Secondary Kinds of Binding with Chains and Fetters
- Secondary Kinds of Confinement in a Dungeon
- Secondary Kinds of Confinement in Stocks
- Secondary Kinds of Confiscating the Property
- Secondary Kinds of Cutting off Hands and Feet
- Secondary Kinds of Cutting off Nose and Ears
- Secondary Kinds of Fine, or Giving of Money
- Secondary Kinds of Imprisonment
- Secondary Kinds of Mutilating the Hands and Feet
- Secondary Kinds of Plucking out the Hair
- Secondary Kinds of Putting out the Eyes
- Secondary Kinds of Restitution
- Secondary Kinds of Retaliation or Injuring According to the Injury Done
- Secondary Kinds of Scourging
- Secondary Kinds of Selling the Criminal
- Secondary Kinds of Torturing
- Sometimes Deferred for a Considerable Time
- Sometimes Deferred Until God Was Consulted
- Strangers not Exempted From
Antiquity of
- Genesis 4:13–14 But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear. …
Capital Kinds of Beheading
- Genesis 40:19 Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”
- Mark 6:16 But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead!”
- Mark 6:27 So without delay, the king commanded that John’s head be brought in. He sent an executioner, who went and beheaded him in the prison.
Capital Kinds of Bruising in Mortars
- Proverbs 27:22 Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.
Capital Kinds of Burning
- Genesis 38:24 About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- Leviticus 20:14 If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.
- Daniel 3:6 And whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into the blazing fiery furnace.”
Capital Kinds of Casting Headlong from a Rock
- 2 Chronicles 25:12 and the army of Judah also captured 10,000 men alive. They took them to the top of a cliff and threw them down so that all were dashed to pieces.
Capital Kinds of Casting Into the Sea
- Matthew 18:6 But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Capital Kinds of Crucifying
- Matthew 20:19 and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”
- Matthew 27:35 When they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments by casting lots.
Capital Kinds of Cutting in Pieces
- Daniel 2:5 The king replied to the astrologers, “My word is final: If you do not tell me the dream and its interpretation, you will be cut into pieces and your houses will be reduced to rubble.
- Matthew 24:51 Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Capital Kinds of Exposing to Wild Beasts
- Daniel 6:16 So the king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the den of lions. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, deliver you!”
- Daniel 6:24 At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions— they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them …
- 1 Corinthians 15:32 If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain? If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Capital Kinds of Hanging
- Numbers 25:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”
- Deuteronomy 21:22–23 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, …
- Joshua 8:29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which …
- 2 Samuel 21:12 he went and took the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan from the men of Jabesh-gilead, who had stolen them from the public square of Beth-shan where the Philistines had hung the bodies after they had struck down Saul at Gilboa.
- Esther 7:9–10 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king. …
Capital Kinds of Sawing Asunder
- Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
Capital Kinds of Slaying with the Sword
- 1 Samuel 15:33 But Samuel declared: “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother will be childless among women.” And Samuel hacked Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.
- Acts 12:2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword.
Capital Kinds of Stoning
- Leviticus 24:14 “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.
- Deuteronomy 13:10 Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
- Acts 7:59 While they were stoning him, Stephen appealed, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.”
Designed to be a Warning to Others
- Deuteronomy 13:11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:13 Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.
- Deuteronomy 19:20 Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
Inflicting of Capital, not Permitted to the Jews by The
- John 18:31 “You take Him and judge Him by your own law,” Pilate told them. “We are not permitted to execute anyone,” the Jews replied.
Power of Inflicting, Given to Magistrates
- Job 31:11 For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.
- Romans 13:4 For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
Secondary Kinds of Banishment
- Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
- Revelation 1:9 I, John, your brother and partner in the tribulation and kingdom and perseverance that are in Jesus, was on the island of Patmos because of the word of God and my testimony about Jesus.
Secondary Kinds of Binding with Chains and Fetters
- Psalm 105:18 They bruised his feet with shackles and placed his neck in irons,
Secondary Kinds of Confinement in a Dungeon
- Jeremiah 38:6 So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank …
- Zechariah 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of My covenant, I will release your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Secondary Kinds of Confinement in Stocks
- Jeremiah 20:2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.
- Acts 16:24 On receiving this order, he placed them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
Secondary Kinds of Confiscating the Property
- Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
Secondary Kinds of Cutting off Hands and Feet
- 2 Samuel 4:12 So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.
Secondary Kinds of Cutting off Nose and Ears
- Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be …
Secondary Kinds of Fine, or Giving of Money
- Exodus 21:22 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
- Deuteronomy 22:19 They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
Secondary Kinds of Imprisonment
- Ezra 7:26 If anyone does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a strict judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
- Matthew 5:25 Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise, he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
Secondary Kinds of Mutilating the Hands and Feet
- Judges 1:5–7 And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites. …
Secondary Kinds of Plucking out the Hair
- Nehemiah 13:25 I rebuked them and called down curses on them. I beat some of these men and pulled out their hair. Then I made them take an oath before God and said, “You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their …
- Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Secondary Kinds of Putting out the Eyes
- Judges 16:21 Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, where he was bound with bronze shackles and forced to grind grain in the prison.
- 1 Samuel 11:2 But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”
Secondary Kinds of Restitution
- Exodus 21:36 But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.
- Exodus 22:1–4 “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep. …
- Leviticus 6:4–5 once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found, …
- Leviticus 24:18 Whoever kills an animal must make restitution — life for life.
Secondary Kinds of Retaliation or Injuring According to the Injury Done
- Exodus 21:24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,
- Deuteronomy 19:21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.
Secondary Kinds of Scourging
- Deuteronomy 25:2–3 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants. …
- Matthew 27:26 So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
- Acts 22:25 But as they stretched him out to strap him down, Paul said to the centurion standing there, “Is it lawful for you to flog a Roman citizen without a trial?”
- 2 Corinthians 11:24 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.
Secondary Kinds of Selling the Criminal
- Matthew 18:25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
Secondary Kinds of Torturing
- Matthew 18:34 In anger his master turned him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should repay all that he owed.
- Hebrews 11:37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, they were put to death by the sword. They went around in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, oppressed, and mistreated.
Sometimes Deferred for a Considerable Time
- 1 Kings 2:5–6 Moreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me— what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with …
- 1 Kings 2:8–9 Keep an eye on Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite from Bahurim who is with you. He called down bitter curses against me on the day I went to Mahanaim, but when he came down to meet me at the Jordan, I swore to him by the LORD: …
Sometimes Deferred Until God Was Consulted
- Numbers 15:34 and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
Strangers not Exempted From
- Leviticus 20:2 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.