“put to death”; “life*require”
Gen 9
9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
9:2 And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast
of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth
upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand
are they delivered.
9:3 Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you; even as the
green herb have I given you all things.
9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye
not eat.
9:5 And 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.
9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the
earth, and multiply therein.
Numerous examples given in Exodus chapters 21 & 22
Offenses Calling for Capital Punishment: 1. Intentional homicide (Ex. 21:12; Lev. 24:17; Num. 35:16-21, 29-34); 2. False witnessing in capital cases (Deut. 19:16-21); 3. Idolatry (Lev. 20:1-5; Deut. 13:2-18; 17:2-7); 4. Abducting persons for slavery (Ex. 21:16; Deut. 24:7); 5. Sexual acts of incest, homosexuality, and bestiality (Ex. 22:19; Lev. 20:11-17); 6. Rape (Deut. 22:23-27) including the girl if she did not cry for help; 7. Adultery (Lev. 20:10-12; Deut. 22:22); 8. Sex relations outside of marriage: (a) before marriage, but discovered afterward (Deut. 22:20-21), the woman alone to be executed; (b) relations with another’s betrothed (Deut. 22:23-24), both to be executed; (c) the harlotry of a priest’s daughter (Lev. 21:9); 9. Witchcraft and false claim to prophecy (Ex. 22:18; Lev. 20:27; Deut. 13:1-5; 18:20; 1 Sam. 28:3, 9); 10. Profaning the Sabbath (Ex. 31:14-17; 35:2; Num. 15:32-36); 11. Blasphemy (Lev. 24:14-16, 23; 1 Kings 21:13; Matt. 26:65-66); 12. Cursing or striking one’s parents (Ex. 21:15, 17).
Forms of Capital Punishment Stipulated or Mentioned: 1. Stoning was the usual method in Israel (Ex. 19:13; Lev. 20:27; Deut. 22:24; Josh. 7:25; compare Luke 20:3-6; Acts 7:58). At least two witnesses were needed to verify a charge, and they had to throw the first stones (Deut. 17:6-17; compare John 8:7). 2. Burning was the penalty for incest (Lev. 20:14); harlotry (Gen. 38:24), particularly by a priest’s daughter (Lev. 21:9). 3. Sword (Ex. 32:27; Deut. 13:15), spear (Num. 25:7ff.), and shooting by arrow (Ex. 19:13). 4. Beheading was reserved especially for those who cursed or insulted royalty (2 Sam. 16:9; 2 Kings 6:31-32). 5. Crucifixion was carried out in New Testament times only by Roman decree and by Roman soldiers (Matt. 27:22-26, 33-50; Luke 23:13-33; John 18:28-19:30) for those convicted of political insurrection against Rome. Jewish authorities under Roman rule were not normally permitted to execute anyone (John 18:31), although rare exceptions are recorded (Acts 5:27-33; 7:57-60; 26:10); whether these were approved by Rome is d
CUT OFF:
H3582 kachad, kaw-khad'; a primitive root; to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy: — conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
H3772 karath, kaw-rath'; a primitive root; to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces): — be chewed, be con-(feder-) ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
G1581 ek-kop’-to; from 1537 and 2875; to exscind; figurative to frustrate: — cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder.
Lev. 20:2 child sacrifice: Again, 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.
Amos 9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The
evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
Num. 15:28 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that sinneth
ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance before the LORD, to
make an atonement for him; and it shall be forgiven him. (a sacrifice was provided for for ignorance)
Num.15:29 Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Num.15:30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. (NO sacrifice was provided for for presumption)
Num.15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
Zec 5:1 Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a
flying roll.
5:2 And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a
flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth
thereof ten cubits.
5:3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the
face of the whole earth: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off
as on this side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be
cut off as on that side according to it.
5:4 I 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.
God’s WRATH
Ps. 78:49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and
indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them. All of Ps. 78
I Cor. 10:6 Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not
lust after evil things, as they also lusted.
10:7 Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The
people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and
fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
10:9 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and
were destroyed of serpents.
10:10 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were
destroyed of the destroyer.
10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they
are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
are come.
10:12 Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.
Deut. 17
17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought
wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his
covenant,
17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either
the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded;
17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that
woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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17:6 At 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.
17:7 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put
the evil away from among you.
17:8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood
and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise,
and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall
choose;
17:9 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew
thee the sentence of judgment:
17:10 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that
place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt
observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
17:11 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt
do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew
thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.
17:12 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken
unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy
God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put
away the evil from Israel.
17:13 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.