Stoning

To strike an offender with stones until he or she is dead. Stoning normally took place outside the city walls. The prosecution witnesses, of whom there must be at least two, had to throw the first stones, followed if necessary by the spectators.

Stoning was the punishment for certain offences under the Mosaic law

Leviticus 20:1–2, Leviticus 20:27, Leviticus 24:13–14; Deuteronomy 13:6–10, Deuteronomy 17:2–7, Deuteronomy 22:23–24

Examples of stoning in upholding the Mosaic law

Leviticus 24:23; Numbers 15:32–36; Joshua 7:24–25; 1 Kings 21:13–15; John 8:1–11

Examples of the threatened or actual stoning of God's servants

Numbers 14:10 Joshua and Caleb; 1 Samuel 30:6 David; 2 Samuel 16:6; 2 Chronicles 24:20–21; John 8:59, John 10:31–33; Acts 7:58–59 Stephen; Acts 14:19; 2 Corinthians 11:25; Hebrews 11:37