Bible Verses About Punishments

`When thy brother--son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul--doth move thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods--(which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers,

of the gods of the peoples who are round about you, who are near unto thee, or who are far off from thee, from the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth) --

thou dost not consent to him, nor hearken unto him, nor doth thine eye have pity on him, nor dost thou spare, nor dost thou cover him over.

`But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;

and thou hast stoned him with stones, and he hath died, for he hath sought to drive thee away from Jehovah thy God, who is bringing thee out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants;

and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

and all the people do hear and fear, and do not presume any more.

thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

and those who are left do hear and fear, and add not to do any more according to this evil thing in thy midst;

and thine eye doth not pity--life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

`And when there is in a man a sin--a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,

his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day--for a thing lightly esteemed of God is the hanged one--and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--an inheritance.

and fined him a hundred silverlings, and given to the father of the damsel, because he hath brought out an evil name on a virgin of Israel, and she is to him for a wife, he is not able to send her away all his days.

`Fathers are not put to death for sons, and sons are not put to death for fathers--each for his own sin, they are put to death.

then it hath come to pass, if the wrong-doer is to be smitten, that the judge hath caused him to fall down, and one hath smitten him in his presence, according to the sufficiency of his wrong-doing, by number;

forty times he doth smite him--he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these--many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

And Joshua saith, `What! thou hast troubled us! --Jehovah doth trouble thee this day;' and all Israel cast stones at him, and they burn them with fire, and they stone them with stones,

and the king of Ai he hath hanged on the tree till even-time, and at the going in of the sun hath Joshua commanded, and they take down his carcase from the tree, and cast it unto the opening of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones till this day.

and they find Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fight against him, and smite the Canaanite and the Perizzite.

And Adoni-Bezek fleeth, and they pursue after him, and seize him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes,

and Adoni-Bezek saith, `Seventy kings--their thumbs and their great toes cut off--have been gathering under my table; as I have done so hath God repaid to me;' and they bring him in to Jerusalem, and he dieth there.

And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house.

And Nahash the Ammonite saith unto them, `For this I covenant with you, by picking out to you every right eye--and I have put it a reproach on all Israel.'

And Samuel saith, `As thy sword bereaved women--so is thy mother bereaved above women;' and Samuel heweth Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.