Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
Note Or impale his body on a pole; similarly in verse 23
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- worthy of death
- Heb. of the judgment of death. The Hebrews understand this not of putting to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death; which was done more ignominiously of some heinous malefactors. We have the examples of Rechab and Baanah, who, for murdering Ish-bosheth, were slain by David's commandment, their hand and feet cut off, and then hanged up.
- 2 Samuel 4:12
- See also
- Joshua 8:29; Joshua 10:26; Deuteronomy 19:6; Deuteronomy 22:26; 1 Samuel 26:16; Matthew 26:66; Acts 23:29; Acts 25:11, 25; Acts 26:31
- thou hang
- 2 Samuel 21:6, 9; Luke 23:33; John 19:31–38