Finding all sins in Old Testament where God mandated death.

Please don’t misunderstand me here. The question is not asked with any partisan intent over the modern debate on the death penalty.

What I’m working on is a project as on why God mandated these punishments for things that seem minor to modern sensibilities and sometimes shock the world.

But, it seems like I need to track them all down to make sure there are no sins on the list that would disprove my theory right out of the gate.

Any suggestions on how to search?

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Dave Hooton

A Bible Search for death in the Pentateuch is a good start.You can refine it with death WITHIN {Speaker <Person God>}

The speaker may also be Moses --> death WITHIN {Speaker <Person God>}, {Speaker <Person Moses>}

{Section <Culture Capital Punishment>} introduces equivalent expressions e.g. "shall not live", "may die". Again, you can restrict that by Speaker.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201239#Comment_1201239

Dave.... between you and Graham.... and your understanding of the Logos Search.... I think you should put out a video on it. I appreciate the depth you two seem to understand it.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201241#Comment_1201241

I appreciate the depth you two seem to understand it.

Thank you.

The simple Search brings out examples that you can refine or expand. I right-click one result for death and discover "Capital Punishment". There are others like "Regulations about personal offenses". Then there is "Law, Casuistic". Select that and then select a Search on the other side of the Context menu. You get additional results like "life for life".

Graham Criddle

Another option, in addition to what Dave suggested, is to use Sense searching - <Sense to kill> WITHIN {Speaker <Person God>}

You will get some results that aren't relevant to your search but it could be another useful approach.

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201247#Comment_1201247

Thank you all. Filtering through the results have given me things to consider.

I guess I really need to dig out the manual and videos and learn how to search for myself [:)].

1Cor10 31

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201241#Comment_1201241

Dave.... between you and Graham.... and your understanding of the Logos Search.... I think you should put out a video on it. I appreciate the depth you two seem to understand it.

Totally agree. I would also add Keep Smiling 4 Jesus -- another total stud.

1Cor10 31

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201245#Comment_1201245

The simple Search brings out examples that you can refine or expand. I right-click one result for death and discover "Capital Punishment". There are others like "Regulations about personal offenses". Then there is "Law, Casuistic". Select that and then select a Search on the other side of the Context menu. You get additional results like "life for life".

I finally got around to watching several videos purchased from LearnLogos. I didn't realize the importance of Right-click menu that Dave mentions. You don't need to know the search syntax as much if you start there. Try on multiple searches suggested using the right-click menu. Then combine the searches that Logos populates using AND, OR etc. Search has become less intimidating for me.

Liam

Interesting. I’ll have to file this search away for looking into later.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201383#Comment_1201383

I didn't realize the importance of Right-click menu that Dave mentions. You don't need to know the search syntax as much if you start there. Try on multiple searches suggested using the right-click menu. Then combine the searches that Logos populates using AND, OR etc.

Yes - this is such an important technique

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201241#Comment_1201241

Dave.... between you and Graham.... and your understanding of the Logos Search.... I think you should put out a video on it. I appreciate the depth you two seem to understand it.

Or…you could use this advanced search training: https://www.logos.com/product/51655/verbum-advanced-search-training

I’m still of the opinion that the search feature could or needs to be simplified.

DAL

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201397#Comment_1201397

Or…you could use this advanced search training: https://www.logos.com/product/51655/verbum-advanced-search-training

I second the excellence of this training.

David P. Moore

David, also of possible interest is the list "Forty-Two Death Penalty Sins" in Dake's Topics.

Bill Coley

What I’m working on is a project as on why God mandated these punishments for things that seem minor to modern sensibilities and sometimes shock the world.

This is a great subject for a project, David.

One pair of words that is very helpful to your search in a variety of translations, perhaps especially in the New Living Translation, is "must die." Not every hit will be relevant, of course, but you'll find many useful passages.

Blessings to your study.

Gregory Lawhorn

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1201392#Comment_1201392

1Cor10:31"> I didn't realize the importance of Right-click menu that Dave mentions. You don't need to know the search syntax as much if you start there. Try on multiple searches suggested using the right-click menu. Then combine the searches that Logos populates using AND, OR etc.

Yes - this is such an important technique

It also has the advantage of teaching the user what code to type since it appears in the search field. It's easy to just look at the search results, but taking a look at the search criteria will reveal much.