申命记 25:2

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

如果有罪的人應受責打，審判官就要叫他伏下，當面按著他的罪，照著數目責打他。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
恶 人 若 该 受 责 打 ， 审 判 官 就 要 叫 他 当 面 伏 在 地 上 ， 按 着 他 的 罪 照 数 责 打 。

Contextual Overview

¹ If two people have an argument and go to court, the judges will decide the case. They will declare one person right and the other guilty. ² If the guilty person has to be punished with a beating, the judge will make that person lie down and be beaten in front of him. The number of lashes should match the crime. ³ But don't hit a person more than forty times, because more than that would disgrace him before others. ⁴ When an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 10:17, Matthew 27:26, Luke 12:47, Luke 12:48, Acts 5:40, Acts 16:22-24, 1 Peter 2:20, 1 Peter 2:24

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 13:25 - smote Acts 23:3 - smitten 2 Corinthians 11:24 - forty

Cross-References

Genesis 25:1
Abraham married again, and his new wife was Keturah.

Genesis 25:4
The sons of Midian were Ephah, Epher, Hanoch, Abida, and Eldaah. All these were descendants of Keturah.

Genesis 25:8
He breathed his last breath and died at an old age, after a long and satisfying life.

Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

Genesis 25:16
These were Ishmael's sons, and these are the names of the tribal leaders listed according to their settlements and camps.

Genesis 25:17
Ishmael lived one hundred thirty-seven years and then breathed his last breath and died.

Genesis 25:18
His descendants lived from Havilah to Shur, which is east of Egypt stretching toward Assyria. They often attacked the descendants of his brothers.

Genesis 25:32
Esau said, "I am almost dead from hunger. If I die, all of my father's wealth will not help me."

Genesis 25:33
But Jacob said, "First, promise me that you will give it to me." So Esau made a promise to Jacob and sold his part of their father's wealth to Jacob.

Genesis 36:35
When Husham died, Hadad son of Bedad, who had defeated Midian in the country of Moab, became king. Hadad was from the city of Avith.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten,.... There were four kinds of death criminals were put to by the Jews, stoning, strangling, burning, and slaying with the sword; and such crimes not as severe as these were punished with beating or scourging; and who they were that were worthy to be beaten is at large set forth in the Misnic treatise called Maccoth x, or "stripes", which are too many to be transcribed. Maimonides says y, that all negative precepts in the law, for the breach of which men are guilty of cutting off, but not of death by the sanhedrim, are to be beaten. They are in all twenty one, and so all deserving of death by the hand of heaven; and they are eighteen, and all negative precepts of the law broken, for which there is neither cutting off nor death by a court of judicature, for these men are to be beaten, and they are one hundred and sixty eight; and all that are to be beaten are found to be two hundred and seven;

that the judge shall cause him to lie down; which seems to be on the floor of the court, since it was to be done immediately, and in the presence of the judge; and the Jews gather z from hence, that he was to be beaten neither standing, nor sitting, but bowed; that is, ye shall command or order him to lie down, or to fall upon the ground with his face towards it:

and to be beaten before his face; in the presence of the judge, that the sentence might be properly executed, neither exceeded not diminished; and indeed all the judges were to be present, especially the bench of three; while he was beating, the chief of the judges read the passage in Deuteronomy 28:58; and he that was next to him counted the strokes, and the third at every blow said Smite a: of the manner of beating or scourging, Deuteronomy 28:58- :;

according to his fault, by a certain number; as his crime and wickedness was more or less heinous, more or fewer stripes were to be laid on him; as ten or twenty, fewer or more, according to the nature of his offence, as Aben Ezra observes, only he might not add above forty; though he says there are some who say that according to his fault the stripes are larger or lesser, but all of them in number forty.

x Ib. c. 3. sect. 1. 2, 3, &c. y Hilchot Sanhedrin, c. 19. sect. 1. z Misn. Maccot, c. 3. sect. 13. a Maimon & Bartenora in ib. sect. 14.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Render it:

(1) If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, and the judges judge them, and justify the righteous and condemn the wicked (compare the marginal reference. and Exodus 23:7; Proverbs 17:15);

(2) then it shall be, etc.

Deuteronomy 25:2

Scourging is named as a penalty in Leviticus 19:20. The beating here spoken of would be on the back with a rod or stick (compare Proverbs 10:13; Proverbs 19:29; Proverbs 26:3).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 25:2. The judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face — This precept is literally followed in China; the culprit receives in the presence of the magistrate the punishment which the law directs to be inflicted. Thus then justice is done, for the magistrate sees that the letter of the law is duly fulfilled, and that the officers do not transgress it, either by indulgence on the one hand, or severity on the other. The culprit receives nothing more nor less than what justice requires.