Nave’s Topical Bible
Punishment
149 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- DEATH PENALTY
- Will not be commuted
- In the Mosaic law the death penalty was inflicted
- For murder
- For adultery
- For incest
- For bestiality
- For sodomy
- For sexual immorality
- For the rape of a betrothed (engaged) virgin
- For perjury
- For kidnapping
- For the promiscuousness of a priest's daughter
- For witchcraft
- For offering human sacrifice
- For striking or cursing one's father or mother
- For disobedience to parents
- For stealing
- For blasphemy
- For desecrating the Sabbath day
- For prophesying falsely, or propagating false doctrines
- For sacrificing to false gods
- For refusing to abide by the decision of the court
- For treason
- For sedition
- MODES OF EXECUTION OF DEATH PENALTY
- Burning
Genesis 38:24; Leviticus 20:14; Leviticus 21:9; Jeremiah 29:22; Ezekiel 23:25; Daniel 3:19-23
- Stoning
Leviticus 20:2,27; Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 14:10; Numbers 15:33-36; Deuteronomy 13:10; Deuteronomy 17:5; Deuteronomy 22:21,24; Joshua 7:25; 1 Kings 21:10; Ezekiel 16:40
- Hanging
- Beheading
- Crucifixion
- The sword
- Executed by the accusing witnesses
- Executed by the entire congregation
- Burning
- Not inflicted by the testimony of less than two witnesses
- MINOR OFFENSES
- Punishable by
- Scourging
Leviticus 19:20; Deuteronomy 22:18; Deuteronomy 25:2-3; Proverbs 17:10; Proverbs 19:29; Proverbs 20:30; Matthew 27:26; Mark 15:15; Luke 23:16; John 19:1; Acts 22:24,29
- Imprisonment
- Scourging
See PRISON
- Confinement within limits
- Punishable by
- ENTAILED
- Upon children
Exodus 34:7; Jeremiah 31:29; Lamentations 5:7; Ezekiel 18:2-3
See CHASTISEMENT
See FINE
See JUDGMENTS
See RETALIATION
- Upon children
- ACCORDING TO DEEDS
Job 34:11; Psalms 62:12; Proverbs 12:14; Proverbs 24:12; Isaiah 59:18; Jeremiah 17:10; Ezekiel 7:3,27; Ezekiel 16:59; Ezekiel 39:24; Zechariah 1:6; Matthew 5:22; Matthew 16:27; Matthew 23:14; Luke 12:47-48; Luke 20:47
- See the parable of the vineard
- See the parable of the farers
- See the parable of the talnts
- DELAYED
Psalms 50:21; Psalms 55:19; Proverbs 1:24-30; Ecclesiastes 8:11-13; Habakkuk 1:2-4
- DESIGN OF
- DIVINE
- ETERNAL
Isaiah 34:8-10; Daniel 12:2; Matthew 3:12; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:8; Matthew 25:41,46; Mark 3:29; Luke 3:17; John 5:29; Hebrews 6:2; Hebrews 10:28-31; Revelation 14:10-11; Revelation 19:3; Revelation 20:10
Bible verses about “Punishment”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Numbers 35:31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
- Genesis 9:5And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of every man’s brother will I require the life of man.
- Genesis 9:6Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
- Numbers 35:16And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17And if he smite him with throwing a stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:19The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.
- Numbers 35:20But if he thrust him of hatred, or hurl at him by laying of wait, that he die;
- Numbers 35:21Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
- Numbers 35:30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
- Numbers 35:32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
- Deuteronomy 17:6At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:10And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 22:24Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour’s wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
- Leviticus 20:11And the man that lieth with his father’s wife hath uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:12And if a man lie with his daughter in law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:14And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.
- Exodus 22:19Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:15And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.
- Leviticus 20:16And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 18:22Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
- Leviticus 20:13If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Deuteronomy 22:21Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die: because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her father’s house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:22If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:23If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with her;
- Deuteronomy 22:25But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:
- Zechariah 5:4I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
- Exodus 21:16And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 24:7If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
- Leviticus 21:9And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the whore, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.
- Exodus 22:18Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.
- Leviticus 20:2Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:3And I will set my face against that man, and will cut him off from among his people; because he hath given of his seed unto Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
- Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
- Leviticus 20:5Then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people.
- Exodus 21:15And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:17And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:9For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: