Topic
HANGING
Capital punishment by GEN 40:19-22; JOS 8:29; 2SA 4:12; EST 7:10
Passages on this topic · 10
- Genesis 40:19
Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”
- Genesis 40:20
On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Genesis 40:21
He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;
- Genesis 40:22
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
- Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
- Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Joshua 8:29
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
- 2 Samuel 4:12
David commanded his young men, and they killed them, cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.
- Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.
- Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,”
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).