Abridged list of accounts related to the death penalty, proper and improper

  1. Moses worries about the Egyptians stoning them (Exodus 8:26)
  2. Israel wants to stone Moses (Exodus 17)
  3. Man who blasphemed (Leviticus 24:11-23)
  4. Israel says to stone Moses after Moses tells them to take the spied-out land (Numbers 13:35-14:10)
  5. Man who broke the sabbath (Numbers 15:32-36)
  6. Achan (Joshua 7)
  7. Jabesh-gilead broke its oath to come up to the Lord in Mizpah (Judges 21:5-11)
  8. Saul commanding the execution of his son Jonathan when Jonathan ate honey contrary to Saul’s vow (1 Samuel 14:24-48)
  9. David ordering the killing of the man who lies about having killed Saul (2 Samuel 1:1-16)
  10. Slaughter of innocent Ish-bosheth (2 Samuel 4:5-12)
  11. Death of Uzzah (2 Samuel 6:1-7, 1 Chronicles 13:9-12)
  12. The death of of Shimei (2 Samuel 16:5; 19:16-23, 1 Kings 2:8-9, 36-46)
  13. Benaiah executes Joab for Solomon (1 Kings 2:5-6, 28-34)
  14. Benaiah executes Adonijah for Solomon (1 Kings 2:13-25)
  15. Naboth’s vineyard (1 Kings 21:2-15)
  16. Jehoshaphat exterminates male cult prostitutes (1 Kings 22:43-46)
  17. Israel stones H/Adoram the slave taskmaster under Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:18, 2 Chronicles 10:18)
  18. King Amaziah executes the men who killed his father the king (2 Kings 14:5-6)
  19. Joash orders the stoning of Zechariah and is himself assassinated (2 Chronicles 24:17-25)
  20. Parable of the tenants (Matthew 21:33-41, Mark 12:1-9)
  21. Jesus’s trial (Matthew 27, Mark 14:53-15:20, Luke 22:66-23:25, John 18:28-19:16)
  22. *Woman caught in adultery (John 7:53-8:11) *(text has dubious authenticity)
  23. Pharisees pick up stones to stone Jesus (John 8:58-59, 10:30-33)
  24. The stoning of Stephen (Acts 7:54-60)
  25. Gentiles, Jews, and rulers attempt to stone the apostles (Acts 14:3-7)
  26. The stoning of Paul (Acts 14:19-20)