Punishment

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

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• Psalms 105:18 OT

  They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

• Deuteronomy 25:3 OT

  He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more, lest if he should give more and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.

• Matthew 27:26 NT

  Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

• Acts 22:25 NT

  When they had tied him up with thongs, Paul asked the centurion who stood by, “Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman, and not found guilty?”

• 2 Corinthians 11:24 NT

  Five times I received forty stripes minus one from the Jews.

• Matthew 18:25 NT

  But because he couldn’t pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

• Revelation 1:9 NT

  I John, your brother and partner with you in the oppression, Kingdom, and perseverance in Christ Jesus, was on the isle that is called Patmos because of God’s Word and the testimony of Jesus Christ.

• Matthew 18:34 NT

  His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.

• Hebrews 11:37 NT

  They were stoned. They were sawn apart. They were tempted. They were slain with the sword. They went around in sheep skins and in goat skins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated—

• Judges 16:21 OT

  The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

• 1 Samuel 11:2 OT

  Nahash the Ammonite said to them, “On this condition I will make it with you, that all your right eyes be gouged out. I will make this dishonor all Israel.”

• 2 Samuel 4:12 OT

  David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

• Judges 1:5-7 OT

  They found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and they fought against him. They struck the Canaanites and the Perizzites. But Adoni-Bezek fled. They pursued him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his big toes. Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings,…

• Ezekiel 23:25 OT

  I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will take away your nose and your ears. Your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and the rest of you will be devoured by…

• Nehemiah 13:25 OT

  I contended with them, and cursed them, and struck certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons, or for yourselves.

• 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.

• John 18:31 NT

  Pilate therefore said to them, “Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law.” Therefore the Jews said to him, “It is illegal for us to put anyone to death,”

• Genesis 38:24 OT

  About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”

• Leviticus 20:14 OT

  “ ‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness. They shall be burned with fire, both he and they, that there may be no wickedness among you.

• Daniel 3:6 OT

  Whoever doesn’t fall down and worship shall be cast into the middle of a burning fiery furnace the same hour.”

• Numbers 25:4 OT

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Take all the chiefs of the people, and hang them up to Yahweh before the sun, that the fierce anger of Yahweh may turn away from Israel.”

• Deuteronomy 21:22 OT

  If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

• Deuteronomy 21:23 OT

  his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.

• Joshua 8:29 OT

  He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to…