Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

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Bible References

He that is hanged is accursed of god

Numbers 25:4
And Jehovah said to Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, that the fierce anger of Jehovah may be turned away from Israel.
Joshua 7:12
And the children of Israel shall not be able to stand before their enemies: they shall turn their backs before their enemies, for they have made themselves accursed. I will no more be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your midst.
2 Samuel 21:6
let seven men of his sons be given up to us, and we will hang them up to Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king said, I will give them.
Romans 9:3
for I have wished, I myself, to be a curse from the Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to flesh;
Galatians 3:13
Christ has redeemed us out of the curse of the law, having become a curse for us, (for it is written, Cursed is every one hanged upon a tree,)
1 Corinthians 16:22
If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Him who knew not sin he has made sin for us, that we might become God's righteousness in him.

Thy land

Leviticus 18:25
And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
Numbers 35:33
And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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Acts 5:6
And the young men, rising up, swathed him up for burial, and having carried him out, buried him.