Joshua 8:29

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Joshua 8:27–31 · Berean Standard Bible

27 Israel took for themselves only the cattle and plunder of that city, as the LORD had commanded Joshua.

28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

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.

30 At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,

31 just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

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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.

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

Joshua 10:28

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:30

And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to the king of Libnah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 10:33

At that time Horam king of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

Deuteronomy 21:22

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

Deuteronomy 21:23

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.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Psalms 107:40

He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Psalms 110:5

The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.

Acts 12:23

Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

Revelation 19:17

Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out in a loud voice to all the birds flying overhead, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God,

Revelation 19:18

so that you may eat the flesh of kings and commanders and mighty men, of horses and riders, of everyone slave and free, small and great.”

Joshua 7:26

And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.