Scourging
6 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
40 Stripes Was the Maximum Number
- Deuteronomy 25:3 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
Fatal
- Job 9:23 When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
Foretold by Jesus As a Persecution of Future Christians
- Matthew 10:17 But beware of men, for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.
Prescribed for Other offenses
- Deuteronomy 25:2 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.
Prescribed in the Mosaic Law for Committing the Sin of Fornication
- Leviticus 19:20 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
- Deuteronomy 22:18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
Related topics
Scourging of JesusScourging of PaulScourging of Paul and SilasScourging of Servants Could be AvengedScourging of SosthenesScourging of the Evil Tongue
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.