The Trees · stop 7 of 11
The hinge: cursed on a tree
Deuteronomy 21:22–23
The hanged man is 'accursed of God' — on the עֵץ. The LXX renders it ξύλον, the word the apostles will choose.
22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; 23his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
The narrative
This stop on the thread
Deuteronomy hangs a curse on the tree, and for a thousand years the sentence waits. The hanged man is 'accursed of God' — and Israel could not have guessed who would one day hang there. The Greek translators chose the word xylon; the apostles will not let it go.
Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (public domain)Puritan
The workbench
Words in this verse
- וְכִֽי־ve.khi- — and ifH3588
- יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yeh — it will beH1961
- בְאִ֗ישׁve.'Ish — in anyoneH376
- חֵ֛טְאchet' — a sin ofH2399
- מִשְׁפַּט־mish.pat- — a sentence ofH4941
- מָ֖וֶתMa.vet — deathH4194
- וְהוּמָ֑תve.hu.Mat — and he will be put to deathH4191
- וְתָלִ֥יתָve.ta.Li.ta — and you will hangH8518
- אֹת֖וֹ'o.To — <obj.> himH853
- עַל־'al- — onH5921
- עֵֽץ׃'Etz — a treeH6086
The floor
Cross-references
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