New Torrey's Topical Textbook: Rev. R. A. Torrey

Punishments

• Antiquity of Gen. 4:13, 14
• Power of inflicting, given to magistrates Job 31:11; Rom. 13:4
• Designed to be a warning to others Dt. 13:11, 17:13, 19:20
• Were inflicted
  • On the guilty Dt. 24:16; Pr. 17:26
  • Without pity Dt. 19:13, 21
  • Without partiality Dt. 13:6-8
  • By order of magistrates Acts 16:22
  • By order of kings 2 Sam. 1:13-16; 1 Ki. 2:23-46
  • Immediately after sentence was passed Dt. 25:2; Josh. 7:25
  • By the witnesses Dt. 13:9, 17:7; Jn. 8:7; Acts 7:58, 59
  • By the people Num. 15:35, 36; Dt. 13:9
  • By soldiers 2 Sam. 1:15; Mt. 27:27-35
• Sometimes deferred until God was consulted Num. 15:34
• Sometimes deferred for a considerable time 1 Ki. 2:5, 6, 8, 9
• Secondary kinds of
  • Imprisonment Ezra 7:26; Mt. 5:25
  • Confinement in a dungeon Jer. 38:6; Zech. 9:11
  • Confinement in stocks Jer. 20:2; Acts 16:24
  • Fine, or giving of money Ex. 21:22; Dt. 22:19
  • Restitution Ex. 21:36, 22:1-4; Lev. 6:4, 5, 24:18
  • Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done Ex. 21:24; Dt. 19:21
  • Binding with chains and fetters Ps. 105:18
  • Scourging Dt. 25:2, 3; Mt. 27:26; Acts 22:25; 2 Cor. 11:24
  • Selling the criminal Mt. 18:25
  • Banishment Ezra 7:26; Rev. 1:9
  • Torturing Mt. 18:34; Heb. 11:37
  • Putting out the eyes Judg. 16:21; 1 Sam. 11:2
  • Cutting off hands and feet 2 Sam. 4:12
  • Mutilating the hands and feet Judg. 1:5-7
  • Cutting off nose and ears Ezek. 23:25
  • Plucking out the hair Neh. 13:25; Isa. 50:6
  • Confiscating the property Ezra 7:26
• Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the Jews by the Romans Jn. 18:31
• Capital kinds of
  • Burning Gen. 38:24; Lev. 20:14; Dan. 3:6
  • Hanging Num. 25:4; Dt. 21:22, 23; Josh. 8:29; 2 Sam. 21:12; Esther 7:9, 10
  • Crucifying Mt. 20:19, 27:35
  • Beheading Gen. 40:19; Mk. 6:16, 27
  • Slaying with the sword 1 Sam. 15:33; Acts 12:2
  • Stoning Lev. 24:14; Dt. 13:10; Acts 7:59
  • Cutting in pieces Dan. 2:5; Mt. 24:51
  • Sawing asunder Heb. 11:37
  • Exposing to wild beasts Dan. 6:16, 24; 1 Cor. 15:32
  • Bruising in mortars Pr. 27:22
  • Casting headlong from a rock 2 Chr. 25:12
  • Casting into the sea Mt. 18:6
• Strangers not exempted from Lev. 20:2
• Were sometimes commuted Ex. 21:29, 30
• For murder not to be commuted Num. 35:31, 32