Ezra 6:11

New English Translation

“I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled on it, and his house is to be reduced to a rubbish heap for this indiscretion.

Cross References

2 Kings 10:27

They demolished the sacred pillar of Baal and the temple of Baal; it is used as a latrine to this very day.

2 Kings 9:37

Jezebel’s corpse will be like manure on the surface of the ground in the plot of land at Jezreel. People will not be able to even recognize her.’”

Ezra 7:26

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison.”

Esther 5:4

Esther replied, “If the king is so inclined, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Daniel 2:5

The king replied to the wise men, “My decision is firm. If you do not inform me of both the dream and its interpretation, you will be dismembered and your homes reduced to rubble!

Daniel 3:29

I hereby decree that any people, nation, or language group that blasphemes the god of Shadrach, Meshach, or Abednego will be dismembered and his home reduced to rubble! For there exists no other god who can deliver in this way.”