Deuteronomy 21:23

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

you must not let it hang there overnight. Bury it the same day, because the dead body of a criminal will bring God's curse on the land. The LORD your God is giving this land to you, so don't make it unclean by leaving the bodies of executed criminals on display.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah spread out some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She wouldn't let the birds land on the bodies during the day, and she kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.

2 Samuel 21:6

Give us seven of his descendants. We will hang these men near the place where the LORD is worshipped in Gibeah, the home town of Saul, the LORD's chosen king.” “I'll give them to you,” David said.

2 Kings 10:8

When Jehu was told what had happened, he said, “Put the heads in two piles at the city gate, and leave them there until morning.”

Ezekiel 39:12

The Israelites will spend seven months burying dead bodies and cleaning up their land.

Leviticus 18:25

and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.

Numbers 25:4

So he said to Moses, “Take the Israelite leaders who are responsible for this and have them killed in front of my sacred tent where everyone can see. Perhaps then I will stop being angry with the Israelites.”

John 19:31

The next day would be both a Sabbath and the Passover. It was a special day for the Jewish people, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses during that day. So they asked Pilate to break the men's legs and take their bodies down.

Romans 9:3

I would gladly be placed under God's curse and be separated from Christ for the good of my own people.

1 Corinthians 16:22

I pray that God will put a curse on everyone who doesn't love the Lord. And may the Lord come soon.

2 Corinthians 5:21

Christ never sinned! But God treated him as a sinner, so that Christ could make us acceptable to God.

Galatians 3:13

But Christ rescued us from the Law's curse, when he became a curse in our place. This is because the Scriptures say that anyone who is nailed to a tree is under a curse.

Deuteronomy 25:19

The LORD your God will help you capture the land, and he will give you peace. But when that day comes, you must wipe out Amalek so completely that no one will remember they ever lived.

Deuteronomy 4:21

The LORD was angry with me because of what you said, and he told me that he would not let me cross the River Jordan into the good land that he is giving you.

Deuteronomy 7:26

so destroy it. If you bring it home with you, both you and your house will be destroyed. Stay away from those disgusting idols!

Joshua 7:12

What they stole was supposed to be destroyed, and now Israel itself must be destroyed. I cannot help you any more until you do exactly what I have said. That's why Israel turns and runs from its enemies instead of standing up to them.