DEATH PENALTY
God
instituted the death penalty for capital crimes against Himself, mankind, and
society. Not all sin was deemed by God to be worthy of execution, only the
crimes that are the most detrimental to a civilized society proscribed the life
of the guilty. Take a look at the sins that God says deserve capital
punishment. If God says that the below deserve to die at the hands of
lawful government who has the power and right to overrule God and say that such
deserve to live and flourish in a civilized society unless, of course, your
definition of a civilized society is less than God's definition? Take a
look around the globe and tell me if you think that man's definition of
civilization is working?
Murderers
Genesis 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
"Put
To Death"
Genesis 26:11 And Abimelech
charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife
shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 19:12 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:
Murderers
Exodus 21:12 He that smiteth
a man, so that he die, shall be surely put
to death.
Exodus 21:15 And he that smiteth
his father, or his mother, shall be surely put
to death.
Kidnappers
Exodus 21:16 And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Children
Who Curse Their Parents
Exodus 21:17 And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Owners
Of Dangerous Animals
Exodus 21:29 But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.
Bestiality
Exodus
Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath
therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth
it shall surely be put to death:
for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from
among his people.
Exodus 31:15 Six days may work be done; but in the
seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the
LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath
day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 35:2 Six days shall work be done, but on
the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath
of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to
death.
Leviticus 19:20 And whosoever lieth
carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and
not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall
not be put to death,
because she was not free.
Parents Who Sacrifice Their Children To Idols
Leviticus 20:2 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.
Children
Who Curse Their Parents
Leviticus 20:9 For every one that curseth his father
or his mother shall be surely put to death:
he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
Adulterers
Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Insest
Leviticus
Leviticus 20:12 And if a man lie with his daughter in
law, both of them shall surely be put
to death:
they have wrought confusion; their blood shall be upon them.
Homosexuals
Leviticus 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Bestiality
Leviticus 20:15 And if a man lie with a beast, he
shall surely be put to death:
and ye shall slay the beast.
Leviticus 20:16 And if a woman approach unto any beast, and lie down thereto, thou shalt kill the woman, and the beast: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Witches
And Wizards
Leviticus
Blasphemers
Leviticus 24:16 And he that blasphemeth the name of the LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the LORD, shall be put to death.
Murderers
Leviticus 24:17 And he that killeth
any man shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 24:21 And he that killeth
a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a
man, he shall be put to death.
Leviticus 27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted
of men, shall be redeemed; but shall surely be put to
death.
Numbers 1:51 And when the tabernacle setteth forward, the Levites shall take it down: and when
the tabernacle is to be pitched, the Levites shall set it up: and the stranger
that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:10 And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his
sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 3:38 But those that encamp before the tabernacle
toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation
eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of
the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that
cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Numbers 15:35 And the LORD said unto Moses, The man
shall be surely put to death:
all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
Numbers 18:7 Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Murderers
Numbers 35:16 And if he smite him with an instrument
of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to
death.
Numbers 35:17 And if he smite him with throwing a
stone, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer
shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:18 Or if he smite him with an hand
weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the
murderer shall surely be put to death.
Numbers 35:21 Or in enmity smite him with his hand,
that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to
death; for he is a murderer: the
revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.
Numbers 35:30 Whoso killeth
any person, the murderer shall be put
to death
by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person
to cause him to die.
Numbers 35:31 Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
False
Prophets
Deuteronomy 13:5 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
Necessity
Of At Least Two Witnesses
Deuteronomy 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.
Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
No
Transference Of Guilt
Deuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, neither shall the
children be put to death
for the fathers: every man shall be put
to death
for his own sin.
Joshua 1:18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel
against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put
to death:
only be strong and of a good courage.
Judges 6:31 And Joash
said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will
plead for him, let him be put to death
whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for
himself, because one hath cast down his altar.
Judges 21:5 And the children of
1 Samuel
2 Samuel 8:2 And he smote Moab, and measured them with a
line, casting them down to the ground; even with two lines measured he to put to
death, and with one full line to keep alive.
And so the Moabites became David’s servants, and brought gifts.
2 Samuel 19:21 But Abishai the son
of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not Shimei be put to death
for this, because he cursed the LORD’S anointed?
2 Samuel
2 Samuel 21:9 And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the
LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to
death in the days of harvest, in the first days,
in the beginning of barley harvest.
1 Kings 2:24 Now therefore, as the LORD liveth,
which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who
hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall
be put to
death this day.
2 Kings 14:6 But the children of the murderers he slew
not: according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses,
wherein the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not be put to
death for the children, nor the children be put to
death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to
death for his own sin.
2 Chronicles 15:13 That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of
Israel should be put to death,
whether small or great, whether man or woman.
2 Chronicles 23:7 And the Levites shall compass the king round
about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and whosoever else cometh
into the house, he shall be put to death:
but be ye with the king when he cometh in, and when he goeth out.
Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to the
famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let
their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their
men be put to death;
let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said unto the king, We
beseech thee, let this man be put to death:
for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war
that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such
words unto them: for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the
hurt.
Matthew 10:21 And the brother shall deliver up the
brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up
against their parents, and cause them to be put to
death.
Mark 13:12 Now the brother shall betray the brother to
death, and the father the son; and children shall rise up against their
parents, and shall cause them to be put
to death.
Luke 21:16 And ye shall be betrayed both by
parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends;
and some of you shall they cause to be put
to death.
Luke 23:32 And there were also two other,
malefactors, led with him to be put to death.
Acts 12:19 And when Herod had sought for him, and
found him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should
be put to
death. And he went down from
Acts 26:10 Which thing I also did in Jerusalem:
and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from
the chief priests; and when they were put
to death,
I gave my voice against them.
1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins,
the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to
death in the flesh, but quickened by the
Spirit:
"CUT OFF
Genesis
Exodus 9:15 For now I will stretch out my hand,
that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off
from the earth.
Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread;
even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in
your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is
leavened, even that soul shall be cut
off from the congregation of Israel, whether
he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth
any like it, or whosoever putteth any
of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut
off from his people.
Exodus 30:38 Whosoever shall make like unto that,
to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
Exodus 31:14 Ye shall keep the sabbath
therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth
it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein,
that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 7:20 But the soul that eateth
of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain
unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
Leviticus 7:21 Moreover the soul that shall touch any
unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast,
or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice
of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be
cut off
from his people.
Leviticus 7:25 For whosoever eateth
the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the
LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off
from his people.
Leviticus 7:27 Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off
from his people.
Leviticus 17:4 And bringeth it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the
tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed
blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
Leviticus 17:9 And bringeth it not unto the door of the
tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the LORD; even that man shall
be cut off
from among his people.
Leviticus 17:14 For it is the life of all flesh; the
blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children
of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all
flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth
it shall be cut off.
Leviticus 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of
these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off
from among their people.
Leviticus 19:8 Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned
the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off
from among his people.
Leviticus 20:17 And if a man shall take his sister, his
father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see
his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off
in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he
shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 20:18 And if a man shall lie with a woman having her
sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and
she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off
from among their people.
Leviticus 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be
of all your seed among your generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which
the children of Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him,
that soul shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 23:29 For whatsoever soul it be that
shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off
from among his people.
Numbers 9:13 But the man that is clean, and is not
in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off
from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his
appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Numbers 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.
Numbers 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.
Numbers 19:13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut