Ezra 6:11

New American Bible - revised edition

I also issue this decree: if any man alters this edict, a beam is to be taken from his house, and he is to be lifted up and impaled on it; and his house is to be reduced to rubble for this offense.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

tore down the pillar of Baal, tore down the temple of Baal, and turned it into a latrine, as it remains today.

2 Kings 9:37

The corpse of Jezebel shall be like dung in the field in the confines of Jezreel, so that no one can say: This was Jezebel.”

Ezra 7:26

All who will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon them with all diligence, whether death, or corporal punishment, or confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.” Ezra Prepares for the Journey.

Daniel 2:5

The king answered the Chaldeans, “This is what I have decided: unless you tell me the dream and its meaning, you shall be cut to pieces and your houses made into a refuse heap.

Daniel 3:29

For we have sinned and transgressed by departing from you, and we have done every kind of evil.