Assault and Battery

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Exodus 21:15 OT

  “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

• Exodus 21:18 OT

  “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

• Exodus 21:22-27 OT

  “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow. But if any harm follows, then you must take life…

• Deuteronomy 17:8-12 OT

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh…

• Matthew 5:38 NT

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

• Matthew 5:39 NT

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Isaiah 50:6 OT

  I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

• Lamentations 3:30 OT

  Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him. Let him be filled full of reproach.

• Matthew 26:67 NT

  Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 27:30 NT

  They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

• Mark 14:65 NT

  Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

• Luke 22:63 NT

  The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

• John 19:3 NT

  They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.