Then ¹  some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying, “Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat ²  him.

Beatings and wounds cleanse away ¹  evil, and floggings cleanse ²  the innermost being. ³ 

A poor person ¹  who oppresses the weak is like ²  a driving rain without food. ³ 

They will never go hungry or be thirsty again, and the sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat, ¹ 

And the people went about and gathered it, and ground it with mills or pounded it in mortars; they baked it in pans and made cakes of it. It tasted like fresh olive oil. ¹ 

But the one who did not know his master’s will ¹  and did things worthy of punishment ²  will receive a light beating. ³  From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, ⁴  and from the one who has been entrusted with much, ⁵  even more will be asked. ⁶ 

He will arbitrate ¹  between many peoples and settle disputes between many ²  distant nations. ³  They will beat their swords into plowshares, ⁴  and their spears into pruning hooks. ⁵  Nations will not use weapons ⁶  against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.

They ¹  spat on him and took the staff ²  and struck him repeatedly ³  on the head.

They hammered the gold into thin sheets and cut it into narrow strips to weave ¹  them into the blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and into the fine linen, the work of an artistic designer.

So the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country swooped ¹  down and attacked them ²  as far as Hormah. ³ 

When the donkey saw the angel of the Lord, she crouched down under Balaam. Then Balaam was angry, and he beat his donkey with a staff.

he tore down the altars and Asherah poles, demolished the idols, and smashed all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

“Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion! For I will give you iron horns; ¹  I will give you bronze hooves, and you will crush many nations.” ²  You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them, and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler ³  of the whole earth. ⁴ 

They were having a good time, ¹  when suddenly ²  some men of the city, some good-for-nothings, ³  surrounded the house and kept beating ⁴  on the door. They said to the old man who owned the house, “Send out the man who came to visit you so we can have sex with him.” ⁵ 

One who beats an animal to death ¹  must make restitution for it, but ²  one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see. ¹ 

He drove his enemies back; he made them a permanent target for insults. ¹ 

Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

Then they spat in his face and struck him with their fists. And some slapped him,

Again and again ¹  they struck him on the head with a staff ²  and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him.