Deuteronomy 21:22
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New International Version (©2011)
If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

International Standard Version (©2012)
"If a man is guilty of a capital offense, is executed, and then is impaled on a tree,

NET Bible (©2006)
If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When a convicted person is put to death,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:

American King James Version
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
When 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:

Darby Bible Translation
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou have hanged him on a tree,

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And if a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death, and he must be put to death, and thou shalt hang him on a tree:

World English Bible
If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;

Young's Literal Translation
'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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:22,23 By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling, therefore dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land. There is one reason here which has reference to Christ; He that is hanged is accursed of God; that is, it is the highest degree of disgrace and reproach. Those who see a man thus hanging between heaven and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either. Moses, by the Spirit, uses this phrase of being accursed of God, when he means no more than being treated most disgracefully, that it might afterward be applied to the death of Christ, and might show that in it he underwent the curse of the law for us; which proves his love, and encourages to faith in him.

Pulpit Commentary

Verses 22, 23. - When a criminal was put to death and was hanged upon a tree, his body was not to remain there over-night, but was to be buried the same day on which he was executed. Verse 22. - If a man have committed a sin worthy of death; literally, If there be on a man a judgment of death; if he lie under sentence of death. Hang him on a tree. This refers not to putting to death by strangling, but to the impaling of the body after death (cf. C. B. Michaelis, 'De Judiciis Poenisque Capitalibus in Sac. Script. Commemoratis,' in 'Sylloge Commentt. Theolog.,' edita a D. J. Pott, vol. 4. p. 209). This was an aggravation of the punishment, as the body so impaled was exposed to insult and assault (cf. Numbers 25:4; Genesis 40:19).

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death,.... This before mentioned, or any other that deserves death, any kind of death, as strangling, killing with the sword, burning and stoning, to which the Jews restrain it here:

and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him, on a tree; is condemned to stoning, and after that they hang him, as the Targum of Jonathan; and according to the Jewish Rabbins, as Jarchi observes, all that were stoned were to be hanged, and only men, not women (g); for it is remarked that it is said "him" and not "her" (h): about this there is a dispute in the Misnah (i);"all that are stoned are hanged, they are the words of R. Eliezer; but the wise men say none are to be hanged but the blasphemer and idolater; a man is to be hanged with his face to the people, a woman with her face to the tree, they are the words of R. Eliezer; but the wise men say, a man is to be hanged, but no woman, to whom R. Eliezer replied, did not Simeon Ben Shetach hang women in Ashkelon? they answered him, he hung eighty women (at once), but they do not judge or condemn two in one day;''so that this was a particular case at a particular time, and not be drawn into an example: in the same place it is asked,

"how they hang one? they fix a beam in the earth, and a piece of wood goes out of it (near the top of it, as one of the commentator (k) remarks), and join his two hands together and hang him;''that is, by his hand, not by his neck, as with us, but rather in the crucifixion; only in that the hands are spread, and one hand is fastened to one part of the cross beam, and the other to the other end.

(g) Misn. Sotah, c. 3. sect. 8. (h) Maimon. & Bartenora in. ib. (i) Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 6. sect. 4. (k) Bartenora in Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 6. sect. 4.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22, 23. if a man have committed a sin … and thou hang him on a tree—Hanging was not a Hebrew form of execution (gibbeting is meant), but the body was not to be left to rot or be a prey to ravenous birds; it was to be buried "that day," either because the stench in a hot climate would corrupt the air, or the spectacle of an exposed corpse bring ceremonial defilement on the land.

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Cursed is Anyone Hung on a Tree
22And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree: 23His body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance. 1You shall not see your brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide yourself from them: you shall in any case bring them again to your brother.

Matthew 26:66 What do you think?" "He is worthy of death," they answered.
Mark 14:64 "You have heard the blasphemy. What do you think?" They all condemned him as worthy of death.
Acts 23:29 I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
Deuteronomy 22:26 Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor,
Joshua 8:29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day.
Joshua 10:27 At sunset Joshua gave the order and they took them down from the poles and threw them into the cave where they had been hiding. At the mouth of the cave they placed large rocks, which are there to this day.