Punishments
1. Antiquity of. Ge 4:13,14.
2. Power of inflicting, given to magistrates. Job 31:11; Ro 13:4.
3. Designed to be a warning to others. De 13:11; 17:13; 19:20.
4. Were inflicted
a. On the guilty. De 24:16; Pr 17:26.
b. Without pity. De 19:13,21.
c. Without partiality. De 13:6-8.
d. By order of magistrates. Ac 16:22.
e. By order of kings. 2Sa 1:13-16; 1Ki 2:23-46.
f. Immediately after sentence was passed. De 25:2; Jos 7:25.
g. By the witnesses. De 13:9; 17:7; Joh 8:7; Ac 7:58,59.
h. By the people. Nu 15:35,36; De 13:9.
i. By soldiers. 2Sa 1:15; Mt 27:27-35.
5. Sometimes deferred until God was consulted. Nu 15:34.
6. Sometimes deferred for a considerable time. 1Ki 2:5,6,8,9.
7. Secondary kinds of
a. Imprisonment. Ezr 7:26; Mt 5:25.
b. Confinement in a dungeon. Jer 38:6; Zec 9:11.
c. Confinement in stocks. Jer 20:2; Ac 16:24.
d. Fine, or giving of money. Ex 21:22; De 22:19.
e. Restitution. Ex 21:36; 22:1-4; Le 6:4,5; 24:18.
f. Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done. Ex 21:24; De 19:21.
g. Binding with chains and fetters. Ps 105:18.
h. Scourging. De 25:2,3; Mt 27:26; Ac 22:25; 2Co 11:24.
i. Selling the criminal. Mt 18:25.
j. Banishment. Ezr 7:26; Re 1:9.
k. Torturing. Mt 18:34; Heb 11:37.
l. Putting out the eyes. Jdj 16:21; 1Sa 11:2.
m. Cutting off hands and feet. 2Sa 4:12.
n. Mutilating the hands and feet. Jdj 1:5-7.
o. Cutting off nose and ears. Eze 23:25.
p. Plucking out the hair. Ne 13:25; Isa 50:6.
q. Confiscating the property. Ezr 7:26.
8. Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans. Joh 18:31.
9. Capital kinds of
a. Burning. Ge 38:24; Le 20:14; Da 3:6.
b. Hanging. Nu 25:4; De 21:22,23; Jos 8:29; 2Sa 21:12; Es 7:9,10.
c. Crucifying. Mt 20:19; 27:35.
d. Beheading. Ge 40:19; Mr 6:16,27.
e. Slaying with the sword. 1Sa 15:33; Ac 12:2.
f. Stoning. Le 24:14; De 13:10; Ac 7:59.
g. Cutting in pieces. Da 2:5; Mt 24:51.
h. Sawing asunder. Heb 11:37.
i. Exposing to wild beasts. Da 6:16,24; 1Co 15:32.
j. Bruising in mortars. Pr 27:22.
k. Casting headlong from a rock. 2Ch 25:12.
l. Casting into the sea. Mt 18:6.
10. Strangers not exempted from. Le 20:2.
11. Were sometimes commuted. Ex 21:29,30.
12. For murder not to be commuted. Nu 35:31,32.