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Deu 21:22 — 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:

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

worthy of death		Heb. of the judgment of death. The Hebrews understand this not of putting to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death; which was done more ignominiously of some heinous malefactors. We have the examples of Rechab and Baanah, who, for murdering Ish-bosheth, were slain by David's commandment, their hand and feet cut off, and then hanged up. 2Sa 4:12; See also Jos 8:29; Jos 10:26; So Num 25:4; we read, ?And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads (chief men) of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel?. Among the Romans, in after ages, they hanged, or rather fastened to the tree ALIVE; and such was the cruel death of our blessed LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ. Deu 19:6; Deu 22:26; 1Sa 26:16; Mat 26:66; Act 23:29; Act 25:11,25; Act 26:31
thou hang		2Sa 21:6,9; Luk 23:33; Jhn 19:31-38

Correlating Passages

worthy of death

	2Sa 4:12	And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged [them] up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried [it] in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
	Jos 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 carcase 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 remaineth] unto this day.
	Jos 10:26	And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
	Num 25:4	And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel.
	Deu 19:6	Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he [was] not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
	Deu 22:26	But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; [there is] in the damsel no sin [worthy] of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so [is] this matter:
	1Sa 26:16	This thing [is] not good that thou hast done. [As] the LORD liveth, ye [are] worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the LORD'S anointed. And now see where the king's spear [is], and the cruse of water that [was] at his bolster.
	Mat 26:66	What think ye? They answered and said, He is guilty of death.
	Act 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.
	Act 25:11	For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
	Act 25:25	But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
	Act 26:31	And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

thou hang

	2Sa 21:6	Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, [whom] the LORD did choose. And the king said, I will give [them].
	2Sa 21:9	And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell [all] seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first [days], in the beginning of barley harvest.
	Luk 23:33	And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
	Jhn 19:31	The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and [that] they might be taken away.
	Jhn 19:32	Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him.
	Jhn 19:33	But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
	Jhn 19:34	But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
	Jhn 19:35	And he that saw [it] bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
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Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 21:22," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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