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Deuteronomy 21:22

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

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ASV

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

KJV

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

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11 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְכִֽי־ve.khi-and ifH3588 →
יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will beH1961 →
בְאִ֗ישׁve.'Ishin anyoneH376 →
חֵ֛טְאchet'a sin ofH2399 →
מִשְׁפַּט־mish.pat-a sentence ofH4941 →
מָ֖וֶתMa.vetdeathH4194 →
וְהוּמָ֑תve.hu.Matand he will be put to deathH4191 →
וְתָלִ֥יתָve.ta.Li.taand you will hangH8518 →
אֹת֖וֹ'o.To<obj.> himH853 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
עֵֽץ׃'Etza treeH6086 →

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Acts 26:31On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”John 19:31–38It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.Acts 23:29I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.Deuteronomy 22:26Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.Matthew 26:66What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered.Luke 23:33When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.Joshua 8:29He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.2 Samuel 21:9And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.Acts 25:11If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”Deuteronomy 19:6Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.2 Samuel 21:6let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.Mark 14:64You have heard the blasphemy. What is your verdict?” And they all condemned Him as deserving of death.Joshua 10:26After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.1 Samuel 26:16This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”2 Samuel 4:12So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.Romans 6:21What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.Numbers 25:4Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”Acts 25:25But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

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On Deuteronomy 21:22

The Tree

The same noun, doing the opposite job: a piece of timber a dead criminal is hung on. This is a burial law about not leaving a body out overnight, and it is the hinge of everything below it.

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Trees — Eden, Cross, New Jerusalem

Two trees stood in Eden and framed the first choice. One stood on Calvary and absorbed the consequence of the wrong one. The tree of life closes the canon, multiplied and unguarded.

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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