Deuteronomy 21:22

Read in context

Deuteronomy 21:20–23 · Berean Standard Bible

20 and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

21 Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

23 you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Hebrew words

Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Study Deuteronomy 21:22

Read the commentary on Deuteronomy 21

Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

Joshua 8:29

He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

Joshua 10:26

After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.

1 Samuel 26:16

This thing you have done is not good. As surely as the LORD lives, all of you deserve to die, since you did not protect your lord, the LORD’s anointed. Now look around. Where are the king’s spear and water jug that were by his head?”

Matthew 26:66

What do you think?” “He deserves to die,” they answered.

Acts 23:29

I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.

Acts 25:11

If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Acts 25:25

But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Acts 26:31

On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”

2 Samuel 21:6

let seven of his male descendants be delivered to us so that we may hang them before the LORD at Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of the LORD.” “I will give them to you,” said the king.

2 Samuel 21:9

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

Luke 23:33

When they came to the place called The Skull, they crucified Him there, along with the criminals, one on His right and the other on His left.

John 19:31

It was the day of Preparation, and the next day was a High Sabbath. In order that the bodies would not remain on the cross during the Sabbath, the Jews asked Pilate to have the legs broken and the bodies removed.

John 19:32

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man who had been crucified with Jesus, and those of the other.

John 19:33

But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs.

John 19:34

Instead, one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out.

John 19:35

The one who saw it has testified to this, and his testimony is true. He knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe.

John 19:36

Now these things happened so that the Scripture would be fulfilled: “Not one of His bones will be broken.”

John 19:37

And, as another Scripture says: “They will look on the One they have pierced.”

John 19:38

Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but secretly for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate to let him remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and removed His body.