Deuteronomy 21:22
What does Deuteronomy 21:22 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 21:22 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`And when there is in a man a sin--a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou have hanged him on a tree,
Context
v.21And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
v.22This passage
v.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.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- John 19:31
The Jews therefore, because it was the Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross upon the sabbath (for the day of that sabbath was a high day), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
- Acts 25:11
If then I am a wrong-doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if none of those things is true whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.
- 2 Samuel 21:6
let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give them.
- 2 Samuel 4:12
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth, and buried it in the grave of Abner in Hebron.
- 1 Samuel 26:16
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept watch over your lord, Jehovah’s anointed. And now see where the king’s spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his head.
- Joshua 8:29
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, unto this day.
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