Deuteronomy 21:22

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Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

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  • Deut 22:26 : 26 You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,
  • Acts 23:29 : 29 I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.
  • Matt 26:66 : 66 What is your verdict?” They answered,“He is guilty and deserves death.”
  • Mark 14:64 : 64 You have heard the blasphemy! What is your verdict?” They all condemned him as deserving death.
  • Luke 23:33 : 33 So when they came to the place that is called“The Skull,” they crucified him there, along with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
  • John 19:31-38 : 31 Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath(for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims’ legs broken and the bodies taken down. 32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men who had been crucified with Jesus, first the one and then the other. 33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately. 35 And the person who saw it has testified(and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe. 36 For these things happened so that the scripture would be fulfilled,“Not a bone of his will be broken.” 37 And again another scripture says,“They will look on the one whom they have pierced.” 38 Jesus’ Burial After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus(but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.
  • Josh 8:29 : 29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day).
  • Josh 10:26 : 26 Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.
  • 1 Sam 26:16 : 16 This failure on your part isn’t good! As surely as the LORD lives, you people who have not protected your lord, the LORD’s chosen one, are as good as dead! Now look where the king’s spear and the jug of water that was by his head are!”
  • 2 Sam 4:12 : 12 So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.
  • 2 Sam 21:6 : 6 let seven of his male descendants be turned over to us, and we will execute them before the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, who was the LORD’s chosen one.” The king replied,“I will turn them over.”
  • 2 Sam 21:9 : 9 He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the LORD. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time– during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.
  • Acts 25:11 : 11 If then I am in the wrong and have done anything that deserves death, I am not trying to escape dying, but if not one of their charges against me is true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
  • Acts 25:25 : 25 But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.
  • Acts 26:31 : 31 and as they were leaving they said to one another,“This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”
  • Num 25:4 : 4 God’s Punishment The LORD said to Moses,“Arrest all the leaders of the people, and hang them up before the LORD in broad daylight, so that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.”
  • Deut 19:6 : 6 Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:23
    85%

    23his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  • Deut 21:21
    80%

    21Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

  • Exod 21:12
    77%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 20:9-11
    3 verses
    75%

    9Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.

    10If a man commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, both the adulterer and the adulteress must be put to death.

    11If a man goes to bed with his father’s wife, he has exposed his father’s nakedness. Both of them must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Deut 17:5-7
    3 verses
    75%

    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

    6At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.

    7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 24:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16and one who misuses the name of the LORD must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a resident foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

    17“‘If a man beats any person to death, he must be put to death.

  • Exod 21:14-17
    4 verses
    75%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

    15“Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.

    16“Whoever kidnaps someone and sells him, or is caught still holding him, must surely be put to death.

    17“Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.

  • Josh 8:29
    74%

    29He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones(it remains to this very day).

  • Lev 20:13
    74%

    13If a man goes to bed with a male as one goes to bed with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves.

  • Deut 22:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21the men of her city must bring the young woman to the door of her father’s house and stone her to death, for she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by behaving like a prostitute while living in her father’s house. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    22If a man is discovered in bed with a married woman both the man lying in bed with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

  • Luke 23:31-32
    2 verses
    74%

    31For if such things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”

    32Two other criminals were also led away to be executed with him.

  • Josh 10:26
    73%

    26Then Joshua executed them and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

  • Deut 19:12
    73%

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Acts 10:39
    73%

    39We are witnesses of all the things he did both in Judea and in Jerusalem. They killed him by hanging him on a tree,

  • Exod 21:20
    72%

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

  • Deut 13:9-11
    3 verses
    72%

    9Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.

    10You must stone him to death because he tried to entice you away from the LORD your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

    11Thus all Israel will hear and be afraid; no longer will they continue to do evil like this among you.

  • Num 35:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16“But if he hits someone with an iron tool so that he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    17If he strikes him by throwing a stone large enough that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

    18Or if he strikes him with a wooden hand weapon so that he could die, and he dies, he is a murderer. The murderer must surely be put to death.

  • Num 35:31
    72%

    31Moreover, you must not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; he must surely be put to death.

  • Lev 24:21
    72%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Deut 17:12
    72%

    12The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the LORD your God there, or to the judge– that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

  • Lev 20:15
    71%

    15If a man has sexual relations with any animal, he must be put to death, and you must kill the animal.

  • Deut 22:24-25
    2 verses
    71%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

    25But if the man came across the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped her, then only the rapist must die.

  • Gal 3:13
    71%

    13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us(because it is written,“Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)

  • Num 15:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

    36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Acts 5:30
    71%

    30The God of our forefathers raised up Jesus, whom you seized and killed by hanging him on a tree.

  • Esth 2:23
    71%

    23The king then had the matter investigated and, finding it to be so, had the two conspirators hanged on a gallows. It was then recorded in the daily chronicles in the king’s presence.

  • Acts 13:29
    71%

    29When they had accomplished everything that was written about him, they took him down from the cross and placed him in a tomb.

  • Exod 22:2
    71%

    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

  • Exod 21:29-30
    2 verses
    71%

    29But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

  • Deut 24:7
    70%

    7If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites, and regards him as mere property and sells him, that kidnapper must die. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 20:27
    70%

    27Prohibition against Spiritists and Mediums“‘A man or woman who has in them a spirit of the dead or a familiar spirit must be put to death. They must pelt them with stones; their blood guilt is on themselves.’”

  • Exod 21:23
    70%

    23But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,