Deuteronomy 21:23

New American Bible - revised edition

his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight. You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God. You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Cross References

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 Kings 10:8

A messenger came in and told him, “They have brought the heads of the princes.” He said, “Pile them in two heaps at the gate of the city until morning.”

Ezekiel 39:12

For seven months the house of Israel shall bury them in order to cleanse the land.

Leviticus 18:25

And so the land has become defiled, and I have punished it for its wickedness, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

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.

John 19:31

Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down.

Romans 9:3

For I could wish that I myself were accursed and separated from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kin according to the flesh.

1 Corinthians 16:22

If anyone does not love the Lord, let him be accursed. Marana tha.

2 Corinthians 5:21

For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Galatians 3:13

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who hangs on a tree,”

Deuteronomy 25:19

Therefore, when the Lord, your God, gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess as a heritage, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget!

Deuteronomy 4:21

But the Lord was angry with me on your account and swore that I should not cross the Jordan nor enter the good land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 7:26

You shall not bring any abominable thing into your house, so as to be, like it, under the ban; loathe and abhor it utterly for it is under the ban.

Joshua 7:12

If the Israelites cannot stand up to their enemies, but must turn their back to them, it is because they are under the ban. I will not continue to be with you unless you remove that which is banned from among you.

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.