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

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The penalties inflicted in ancient times for various crimes and offences, varied in different nations, and at different times. Capital punishment for murder is generally agreed to have been permanently instituted at the origin of the human race; and Cain was only saved from it by a special interposition of God, Ge 4:14-15. It was reenacted, with reasons, after the deluge, Ge 9:5-6, and in the wilderness, Nu 35:9-34; and was early and widely recognized among mankind. The mode of capital punishment usual among the Hebrew was stoning, De 13:9-10 Jos 17:18 Joh 8:7; but various other modes became known to them by intercourse with other nations: as decapitation, 2Ki 10:6-8 Mt 14:8-12; precipitation from rocks, 2Ch 25:12 Lu 4:29; hanging, Jos 8:29 Es 7:10; burning, Da 3:1-30; cutting asunder, Da 2:5 3:29 Heb 11:27; beating, on a wheel-like frame, Heb 11:35; exposure to wild beasts, Da 6:1-28 1Co 15:32; drowning, Mt 18:6; bruising in a mortar, Pr 27:22; and crucifixion, Joh 19:18. Minor punishments were scourging, Le 19:20 2Co 11:24; retaliation in kind for an injury done, Ex 21:23-25 De 19:19; imprisonment, 2Ch 16:10 Mt 4:12; the stocks, Ac 16:24; banishment, Re 1:9; and personal torture, 2Ch 18:26 Isa 50:6 Mt 18:30 Heb 11:37.