Bible Verses About Trees: Often executed criminals on

Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

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

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.

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

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”