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. -- Jdj 16:21; 1Sa 11:2. Cutting off hands and feet. -- 2Sa 4:12. Mutilating the hands and feet. -- Jdj 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.