ASSAULT AND BATTERY

Passages on this topic · 22

• Exodus 21:15

  “Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.

• Exodus 21:18

  “If men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone, or with his fist, and he doesn’t die, but is confined to bed;

• Exodus 21:22

  “If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman’s husband demands and the judges allow.

• Exodus 21:23

  But if any harm follows, then you must take life for life,

• Exodus 21:24

  eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

• Exodus 21:25

  burning for burning, wound for wound, and bruise for bruise.

• Exodus 21:26

  “If a man strikes his servant’s eye, or his maid’s eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.

• Exodus 21:27

  If he strikes out his male servant’s tooth, or his female servant’s tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

• Deuteronomy 17:8

  If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates; then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

• Deuteronomy 17:9

  You shall come to the priests who are Levites, and to the judge who shall be in those days. You shall inquire, and they shall give you the verdict.

• Deuteronomy 17:10

  You shall do according to the decisions of the verdict which they shall give you from that place which Yahweh chooses. You shall observe to do according to all that they shall teach you:

• Deuteronomy 17:11

  according to the decisions of the law which they shall teach you, and according to the judgment which they shall tell you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the sentence which they shall show you, to the right hand, nor to the left.

• Deuteronomy 17:12

  The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.

• Isaiah 50:6

  I gave my back to those who beat me, and my cheeks to those who plucked off the hair. I didn’t hide my face from shame and spitting.

• Lamentations 3:30

  Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him; let him be filled full with reproach.

• Matthew 5:38

  “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.’

• Matthew 5:39

  But I tell you, don’t resist him who is evil; but whoever strikes you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

• Matthew 26:67

  Then they spit in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,

• Matthew 27:30

  They spat on him, and took the reed and struck him on the head.

• Mark 14:65

  Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

• Luke 22:63

  The men who held Jesus mocked him and beat him.

• John 19:3

  They kept saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and they kept slapping him.