SCOURGING
(Corporal punishment by stripes)
Prescribed in the Mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication LEV 19:20; DEU 22:18
Prescribed for other offenses DEU 25:2
40 Stripes was the maximum number DEU 25:3
Fatal JOB 9:23
Of servants could be avenged EXO 21:20
Foretold by Jesus as a persecution of future Christians MAT 10:17
Of children
See CHILDREN, CORRECTION OF PUNISHMEMT
INSTANCES OF
Of Jesus MAT 20:19; 27:26; MRK 15:15; JHN 19:1
Of Paul and Silas ACT 16:23
Of Paul ACT 21:32; 22:24; 2CO 11:24,25
Of Sosthenes ACT 18:17
FIGURATIVE
Of the oppressions of rulers 1KI 12:11
Of the evil tongue JOB 5:21
See ASSAULT AND BATTERY
