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.