{"query": "Easton: Punishment", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_5097a3805501", "title": "Easton: Punishment", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders. Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal disti"}, {"id": "card_n_20d1777b7eea", "title": "Easton: Dungeon", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a puni"}, {"id": "card_n_5b2f31bc921b", "title": "Easton: Crucifixion", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early times. It is not certain whether it was known among the ancient Jews; probably it was not. The modes of capital punishment according to the M"}, {"id": "card_n_21c47ce5d677", "title": "Easton: Hanging", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (Deut. 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu. 25:4; Deut. 2"}, {"id": "card_n_cd012773b4fe", "title": "Easton: Justice of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "That perfection of his nature whereby he is infinitely righteous in himself and in all he does, the righteousness of the divine nature exercised in his moral government. At first God imposes righteous"}, {"id": "card_n_b18904748fad", "title": "Easton: Pashur", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the temple"}, {"id": "card_n_259528ef5e1f", "title": "Easton: Barren", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "For a woman to be barren was accounted a severe punishment among the Jews (Gen. 16:2; 30:1-23; 1 Sam. 1:6, 27; Isa. 47:9; 49:21; Luke 1:25). Instances of barrenness are noticed (Gen. 11:30; 25:21; 29:"}, {"id": "card_n_30e6fb3c9210", "title": "Easton: Pekod", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Probably a place in Babylonia (Jer. 50:21; Ezek. 23:23). It is the opinion, however, of some that this word signifies “visitation,” “punishment,” and allegorically “designates Babylon as the city whic"}, {"id": "card_n_cbbb62c4e702", "title": "Easton: Bastinado", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Beating, a mode of punishment common in the East. It is referred to by “the rod of correction” (Prov. 22:15), “scourging” (Lev. 19:20), “chastising” (Deut. 22:18). The number of blows could not exceed"}, {"id": "card_n_bb659430ee18", "title": "Easton: Behead", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "A method of taking away life practised among the Egyptians (Gen. 40:17-19). There are instances of this mode of punishment also among the Hebrews (2 Sam. 4:8; 20:21, 22; 2 Kings 10:6-8). It is also me"}, {"id": "card_n_3cc1635a21d6", "title": "Easton: Judgments of God", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "(1.) The secret decisions of God’s will (Ps. 110:5; 36:6). (2.) The revelations of his will (Ex. 21:1; Deut. 6:20; Ps. 119:7-175). (3.) The infliction of punishment on the wicked (Ex. 6:6; 12:12; Ezek"}, {"id": "card_n_49657c2df55e", "title": "Easton: Tooth", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "One of the particulars regarding which retaliatory punishment was to be inflicted (Ex. 21:24; Lev. 24:20; Deut. 19:21). “Gnashing of teeth” =rage, despair (Matt. 8:12; Acts 7:54); “cleanness of teeth”"}, {"id": "card_n_d674827b79b3", "title": "Easton: Stripes", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "As a punishment were not to exceed forty (Deut. 25:1-3), and hence arose the custom of limiting them to thirty-nine (2 Cor. 11:24). Paul claimed the privilege of a Roman citizen in regard to the infli"}, {"id": "card_n_6277625c7696", "title": "Easton: Witness", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "More than one witness was required in criminal cases (Deut. 17:6; 19:15). They were the first to execute the sentence on the condemned (Deut. 13:9; 17:7; 1 Kings 21:13; Matt. 27:1; Acts 7:57, 58). Fal"}, {"id": "card_n_827704e00ca8", "title": "Easton: Sorcerer", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "From the Latin sortiarius, one who casts lots, or one who tells the lot of others. (See DIVINATION.) In Dan. 2:2 it is the rendering of the Hebrew mekhashphim, i.e., mutterers, men who professed to ha"}, {"id": "card_n_0e76aa995db1", "title": "Easton: Brimstone", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "An inflammable mineral substance found in quantities on the shores of the Dead Sea. The cities of the plain were destroyed by a rain of fire and brimstone (Gen. 19:24, 25). In Isa. 34:9 allusion is ma"}, {"id": "card_n_b000f8f0e0a7", "title": "Easton: Blind", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be treated with compassion (Lev. 19:14; Deut. 27:18). Blindness was sometimes a punishment for disobedienc"}, {"id": "card_n_06dc06d97fd1", "title": "Easton: Accuser", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Satan is styled the “accuser of the brethren” (Rev. 12:10. Comp. Job 1:6; Zech. 3:1), as seeking to uphold his influence among men by bringing false charges against Christians, with the view of weaken"}, {"id": "card_n_61ebd202a8ac", "title": "Easton: Murder", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wilful murder was distinguished from accidental homicide, and was invariably visited with capital punishment (Num. 35:16, 18, 21, 31; Lev. 24:17). This law in its principle is founded on the fact of m"}, {"id": "card_n_a12b65778fd0", "title": "Easton: Dust", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers. They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. Jehovah threatens to bring on the land of Israel, as a punishment for forsaking him, a"}]}