Deuteronomy 21:22

New English Translation

If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

Cross References

Genesis 40:19

In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

2 Samuel 21:10

Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, she did not allow the birds of the air to feed on them by day, nor the wild animals by night.

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute them before the Lord in Gibeah of Saul, who was the Lord’s chosen one.” The king replied, “I will turn them over.”

2 Samuel 21:9

He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 4:12

So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

Numbers 25:4

The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the Lord in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.”

Matthew 26:66

What is your verdict?” They answered, “He is guilty and deserves death.”

Mark 14:64

You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?” They all condemned him as deserving death.

Luke 23:33

So when they came to the place that is called “The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.

Acts 23:29

I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

Acts 25:11

If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Acts 25:25

But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Acts 26:31

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

Deuteronomy 19:6

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Deuteronomy 22:26

You must not do anything to the young woman – she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,

Joshua 10:26

Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)

Joshua 8:29

He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day).

1 Samuel 26:16

This failure on your part isn’t good! As surely as the Lord lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the Lord’s chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”