Job 7:15
Therefore my soule chuseth rather to be strangled and to die, then to be in my bones.
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- 2 Sam 17:23 : 23 Nowe when Ahithophel sawe that his counsell was not followed, he sadled his asse, and arose, and he went home vnto his citie, and put his houshold in order, & hanged him selfe, and dyed, and was buryed in his fathers graue.
- Matt 27:5 : 5 And when hee had cast downe the siluer pieces in the Temple, hee departed, and went, and hanged himselfe.
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