The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

Job's friends do not waver from their belief that Job must have sinned to incite God's punishment.

" He also asked his readers if the smallpox epidemic may have been given to them by God as " punishment for sin ," and warned that attempting to shield themselves from God's fury ( via inoculation ), would only serve to " provoke him more.

Falwell also regularly linked the AIDS pandemic to LGBT issues and stated, " AIDS is not just God's punishment for homosexuals, it is God's punishment for the society that tolerates homosexuals.

Infuriated, David ordered the Amalekite to be put to death as punishment for killing God's anointed, despite Saul's earlier assassination attempt upon David.

This reading of the text sees God's actions as not a punishment for pride but as an etiology of cultural differences, presenting Babel as the cradle of civilization ( in contrast to the alternative Priestly traditions in Genesis 10 ).

# The tribulations of the Jewish people throughout history constitute God's punishment of them for killing Jesus

In the same year, God's punishment struck the people in the eastern lands, in the town Ornach, and in Khastorokan, and in Sarai, and in Bezdezh, and in other towns in those lands ; the mortality was great among the Bessermens, and among the Tartars, and among the Armenians and the Abkhazians, and among the Jews, and among the European foreigners, and among the Circassians, and among all who lived there, so that they could not bury them.

Nonetheless, though she had failed to produce an heir for Henry V, she was not blamed ; instead, the couple's childlessness was regarded as God's punishment to Henry V for his mistreatment of his father.

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina killed 1, 836 people, Robertson implied on the September 12th broadcast of The 700 Club that the storm was God's punishment in response to America's abortion policy.

The sin and punishment of these priests showed the imperfection of that priesthood from the very beginning, and that it could not shelter any from the fire of God's wrath.

In traditional Jewish thought, Divine punishment is the unfolding of the processes of God's attribute of strict justice, usually mitigated or delayed by God's attribute of benevolent mercy.

: Throughout the different levels of explanation for punishment, the ultimate purpose is always the eschatological aim and promise of God's love and complete Messianic redemption.

It is the sin, and not the vice, that deprives one of God's sanctifying grace and renders one deserving of God's punishment.

If man's evil acts had been from the will of God, then punishment would have been meaningless, as man performed God's will no matter what he did.

He has human characteristics, and although some say that He lives in the sky or in the clouds, Gĩkũyũ lore also says that he comes to earth from time to time to inspect it, bestow blessings and mete out punishment ( similar to God's visit of Abraham before destroying Sodom ).

The following are particularly noted for punishment: idolaters ( liars against God ), liars who disunite believers, those who lie that all good things are for themselves, hypocrites, those who lie against God when invited to Islam or who treat God's signs as falsehoods.

Saint Winwaloe decried the corruption of Ys and warned of God's wrath and punishment, but was ignored by Dahut and the populace.

There are even more elaborate ethical teachings in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, in which each of the twelve sons of Jacob, in his last words to his children and children's children, reviews his life and gives them moral lessons, either warning them against a certain vice he had been guilty of, so that they may avoid divine punishment, or recommending them to cultivate a certain virtue he had practised during life, so that they may win God's favor.

The United Methodist Church, along with other Methodist churches, also condemns capital punishment, saying that it cannot accept retribution or social vengeance as a reason for taking human life.

The United Methodist Church, along with other Methodist churches, condemns capital punishment, saying that it cannot accept retribution or social vengeance as a reason for taking human life.

Besides this, patience was so radicate in his heart that of all the injuries to him committed ( which were no small number ) he never asked vengeance nor punishment, but for that rendered to Almighty God, his Creator, hearty thanks, thinking that by this trouble and adversity his sins were to him forgotten and forgiven.

* The punishment without vengeance ( play )-Lope de Vega

The importance of inflicting some measure of punishment on those persons who breach the law is however maintained in order to maintain social order and to moderate public outrage which might provoke appeals for cruel vengeance.

* Capital punishment perpetuates the concepts of vengeance and retaliation.

He sent good and righteous men to the Isles of the Blessed, and godless, unrighteous men to the prison of vengeance and punishment called Tartarus.

In Greek mythology, Praxidike is the goddess of judicial punishment and the exactor of vengeance, which were two closely allied concepts in the classical Greek world-view.

The moment the object of the demon's attention expresses their preferred method of punishment in the form of a wish, the vengeance demon can cause his or her wish to come true, whether it requires gruesome dismemberment or even the creation of a new alternate universe ( as in " The Wish ").

Though clearly a punishment for the crime of sabotage against the bridge, as Gjon recounts this event, it is less an act of vengeance than it is a true sacrifice.

While Oliver has been trapped in the asylum and continued to refuse Malcolm's demands that Oliver take vengeance on Malcolm's enemies, Malcolm returned Joshua home, and instructs him to murder his mother with a straight razor, as a punishment of Oliver for his disobedience to his father and to make Joshua a monster with Malcolm's similar outlook.

If, however, it would help to intensify your anguish, I can delimit the powers of a few of the divinities you've affronted and describe the punishment they meted out in one analogous instance.

The editor of the Newport Advertiser could discover no evidence of extenuating circumstances in the Brown trial which would warrant making an exception to the infliction of capital punishment.

Apollo would have been banished to Tartarus forever, but was instead sentenced to one year of hard labor as punishment, due to the intercession of his mother, Leto.

Dmitri's grandfather Ivan had been a prominent lawyer in Tsarist Russia who had displayed respect for social awareness and humanitarian principles ( including advocating the abolition of capital punishment ) that would later influence his grandson.

Either the soul knew that the body was corrupt, or it did not ( in which case it would be “ laboring under ignorance ”); both of these considerations are cause for divine punishment.

In Evangelium Vitae, Pope John Paul II suggested that capital punishment should be avoided unless it is the only way to defend society from the offender in question, opining that punishment " ought not go to the extreme of executing the offender except in cases of absolute necessity: in other words, when it would not be possible otherwise to defend society.

if a Catholic were to be at odds with the Holy Father on the application of capital punishment or on the decision to wage war, he would not for that reason be considered unworthy to present himself to receive Holy Communion.

: " If anyone kills person – unless it be ( a punishment ) for murder or for spreading mischief in the land — it would be as if he killed all people.

In inflicting it, they were guided only by their conscientious convictions of duty ; they had to take an oath that they would act biased by neither partiality nor favour ; and, in addition to this, they were bound in every case to state in their lists, opposite the name of the guilty citizen, the cause of the punishment inflicted on him, Subscriptio censoria.

Due to his disobedience regarding the commanded punishment of the Amalekites ( the sworn enemies of Israel ), God dethroned Saul from kingship and vowed that the crown would be given to one that he had chosen.

The true reason for his acknowledgement of guilt is the subject of debate, but it may have been prompted by his sickness, or by a view that through his fame and the greatness of his office he would be spared harsh punishment.

Today we would call this the disciplinary method of " natural consequences " since, like modern psychologists, Rousseau felt that children learn right and wrong through experiencing the consequences of their acts rather than through physical punishment.

These influxes of karma in turn contribute to determination of circumstances that would hold up in our future in the form of rewards or punishment.

However, even in Biblical times, it was very difficult to get a conviction that would lead to this prescribed punishment.

The Jewish oral law states that capital punishment would only be applicable if two men were caught in the act of anal sex, if there were two witnesses to the act, if the two witnesses warned the men involved that they committed a capital offense, and the two men-or the willing party, in case of rape-subsequently acknowledged the warning but continued to engage in the prohibited act anyway.

The Church pointed to Genesis 3: 16 as the basis for pain in childbirth, where Eve's punishment for her role in disobeying God was that he would " multiply thy sorrows, and thy conceptions: in sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.

The inquisitors would provide an opportunity for anyone to step forward and denounce themselves in exchange for easy punishment.

During the period of German Empire the Germanisation policies in Masuria became more effective ; children using Polish in playgrounds and classrooms were widely punished by corporal punishment, authorities tried to appoint Protestant pastors who would use German instead of Polish which resulted in protests of local population.

When the defendant deems that the punishment that would, concretely, be handed down is less than five-year imprisonment ( or that it would just be a fine ), the defendant may plea bargain with the prosecutor.

Peine forte et dure ( Law French for " hard and forceful punishment ") was a method of torture formerly used in the common law legal system, in which a defendant who refused to plead (" stood mute ") would be subjected to having heavier and heavier stones placed upon his or her chest until a plea was entered, or as the weight of the stones on the chest became too great for the condemned to breathe, fatal suffocation would occur.