Torrey's Topical Index

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