Deuteronomy 21:23

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.

He that is hanged is accursed of god

2 Corinthians 5:21

Thy land

Leviticus 18:25

Numbers 35:33

General references

Acts 5:6

Bible References

He that is hanged is accursed of god

Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.

For this reason the children of Israel have given way, turning their backs in flight before their attackers, because they are cursed: I will no longer be with you, if you do not put the cursed thing away from among you.

Let seven men of his family be given up to us and we will put an end to them by hanging them before the Lord in Gibeon, on the hill of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).

For him who had no knowledge of sin God made to be sin for us; so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

Thy land

And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

General references

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.