Deuteronomy 21:22

New American Bible - revised edition

If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

Cross References

Genesis 40:19

within three days Pharaoh will single you out and will impale you on a stake, and the birds will be eating your flesh.”

2 Samuel 21:10

Then Rizpah, Aiah’s daughter, took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock from the beginning of the harvest until rain came down on them from the heavens, fending off the birds of the heavens from settling on them by day, and the wild animals by night.

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven men from among his descendants be given to us, that we may execute them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the Lord’s mountain.” The king replied, “I will give them up.”

2 Samuel 21:9

and delivered them into the power of the Gibeonites, who then executed them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven fell at the one time; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest—that is, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 4:12

So at David’s command, the young men killed them and cut off their hands and feet, hanging them up near the pool in Hebron. But he took the head of Ishbaal and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

Numbers 25:4

The Lord said to Moses: Gather all the leaders of the people, and publicly execute them before the Lord, that the blazing wrath of the Lord may turn away from Israel.

Matthew 26:66

what is your opinion?” They said in reply, “He deserves to die!”

Mark 14:64

You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?” They all condemned him as deserving to die.

Luke 23:33

When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him and the criminals there, one on his right, the other on his left.

Acts 23:29

I discovered that he was accused in matters of controversial questions of their law and not of any charge deserving death or imprisonment.

Acts 25:11

If I have committed a crime or done anything deserving death, I do not seek to escape the death penalty; but if there is no substance to the charges they are bringing against me, then no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Acts 25:25

I found, however, that he had done nothing deserving death, and so when he appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Acts 26:31

And after they had withdrawn they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing [at all] that deserves death or imprisonment.”

Deuteronomy 19:6

Should the distance be too great, the avenger of blood might in hot anger pursue, overtake, and strike the killer dead, even though that one does not deserve the death penalty since there had been no previous hatred;

Deuteronomy 22:26

You shall do nothing to the young woman, since the young woman is not guilty of a capital offense. As when a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, so in this case:

Joshua 10:26

Thereupon Joshua struck and killed the kings, and hanged them on five trees, where they remained hanging until evening.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua commanded that they be taken down from the trees and be thrown into the cave where they had hidden; over the mouth of the cave large stones were placed, which remain until this very day. Conquest of Southern Canaan.

Joshua 8:29

He had the king of Ai hanged on a tree until evening; then at sunset Joshua ordered the body removed from the tree and cast at the entrance of the city gate, where a great heap of stones was piled up over it, which remains to the present day. Altar on Mount Ebal.

1 Samuel 26:16

What you have done is not right. As the Lord lives, you people deserve death because you have not guarded your lord, the anointed of the Lord. Go, look: where are the king’s spear and the water jug that was at his head?” Saul Admits His Guilt.