Deuteronomy 21:22 If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,

English Standard Version
“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
"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
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
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
"If a man is guilty of a capital offense, is executed, and then is impaled 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,

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,

Cross References

Matthew 26:66
What think you? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.

Mark 14:64
You have heard the blasphemy: what think you? And they all condemned him to be guilty of death.

Acts 23:29
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Deuteronomy 22:26
But to the damsel you shall do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and slays him, even so is this matter:

Joshua 8:29
And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.

Joshua 10:27
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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.