Scourging

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

(Corporal punishment by stripes)

Prescribed in the Mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication

• Leviticus 19:20 If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
• Deuteronomy 22:18 Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

Prescribed for other offenses

• Deuteronomy 25:2 If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

40 Stripes was the maximum number

• Deuteronomy 25:3 He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

Fatal

• Job 9:23 When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Of servants could be avenged

• Exodus 21:20 If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of future Christians

• Matthew 10:17 But beware of men, for they will hand you over to their councils and flog you in their synagogues.

Of children

See CHILDREN, CORRECTION OF PUNISHMEMT

Instances of

Of Jesus

• Matthew 20:19 and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life.”
• Matthew 27:26 So Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
• Mark 15:15 And wishing to satisfy the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed Him over to be crucified.
• John 19:1 Then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

Of Paul and Silas

• Acts 16:23 And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

Of Paul

• Acts 21:32 Immediately he took some soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the commander and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
• Acts 22:24 the commander ordered that Paul be brought into the barracks. He directed that Paul be flogged and interrogated to determine the reason for this outcry against him.
• 2 Corinthians 11:24–25 Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

Of Sosthenes

• Acts 18:17 At this, the crowd seized Sosthenes the synagogue leader and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But none of this was of concern to Gallio.

Figurative

Of the oppressions of rulers

• 1 Kings 12:11 Whereas my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.’”

Of the evil tongue

• Job 5:21 You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

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