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Joshua 10:26

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And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

And afterward {H310} Joshua {H3091} smote {H5221} them, and slew {H4191} them, and hanged {H8518} them on five {H2568} trees {H6086}: and they were hanging {H8518} upon the trees {H6086} until the evening {H6153}.

With that, Y'hoshua struck them and put them to death, hanging them on five trees, where they remained hanging until evening.

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

And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

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  • Joshua 8:29 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Numbers 25:4 (2 votes)

    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.

  • 2 Samuel 21:9 (2 votes)

    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.

  • Esther 2:23 (2 votes)

    And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

  • Deuteronomy 21:22 (2 votes)

    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:

  • Deuteronomy 21:23 (2 votes)

    His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee [for] an inheritance.

  • 1 Samuel 15:33 (2 votes)

    And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.