The law sets out details of penalties which may be imposed upon people as a result of their committing of offences.

Genesis 3:23

Just punishments

See also

Banishment

2 Samuel 14:13-14
Ezra 7:26
Job 18:18
Jeremiah 16:15; 23:8; 29:14
Zechariah 5:3
Deuteronomy 25:2-3

Beating

Genesis 38:24

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Burning

Leviticus 20:14; 21:9
Daniel 3:6
Esther 8:1

See also

Confiscation of property

Ezra 10:8
Joshua 8:29

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Hanging

Deuteronomy 21:22-23
Joshua 10:26
1 Samuel 31:8-10
2 Samuel 4:12
2 Samuel 17:23
Matthew 27:5

Hanging is sometimes a self-inflicted punishment:

2 Samuel 21:9-10
Galatians 3:13
Ezra 6:11

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Impaling

Genesis 40:19-22
Esther 2:23 fn; 5:14

Hanging was by impaling among the Persians:

Exodus 19:12-13

See also

Stoning

Exodus 21:29
Leviticus 20:2,27
Leviticus 24:14,16,23
Numbers 15:36

The punishment for blasphemy:

Deuteronomy 13:10; 17:5; 21:21; 22:21,24
Joshua 7:25
1 Kings 21:13-15
Acts 18:2

Unjust punishments and persecutions

Banishment

Matthew 27:26

Beating

See also

pp Mk 15:15

Isaiah 53:5

pp Jn 19:1

Acts 16:37
2 Corinthians 11:24
Matthew 14:9-10

Beheading

See also

Mark 6:16

pp Mk 6:27

Acts 12:2
Revelation 20:4
Daniel 6:16
1 Corinthians 15:32

Being thrown to wild animals

Acts 5:30

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Hanging

Acts 10:39
Acts 5:18

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Imprisonment

Genesis 39:20-22
1 Kings 22:27
Jeremiah 37:15; 38:6
Acts 12:4; 16:23; 23:35; 26:10
2 Corinthians 11:23
Hebrews 11:36
Acts 7:59

See also

Stoning

1 Kings 12:18
Lamentations 3:53
Matthew 21:35

pp 2Ch 10:18

Acts 14:19
2 Corinthians 11:25
Hebrews 11:37
1 Kings 21:15-16

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Confiscation of property

2 Samuel 16:4

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