Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Bible References

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Genesis 40:13
within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head (present you in public) and restore you to your position; and you will [again] put Pharaoh’s cup into his hand just as [you did] when you were his cupbearer.

Lift up thy head from off thee

Genesis 40:22
but Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted [the meaning of the dreams] to them.
Genesis 41:13
And just as he interpreted [the dreams] for us, so it happened; I was restored to my office [as chief cupbearer], and the baker was hanged.”
Deuteronomy 21:22
“And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death and [afterward] you hang him on a tree [as a public example],
Joshua 8:29
He hanged [the body of] the king of Ai on a tree [leaving it there] until evening; at sunset Joshua gave a command and they took the body down from the tree and dumped it at the entrance of the city gate, and piled a great heap of stones over it that stands to this day.
Joshua 10:26
Then afterward Joshua struck them [with his sword] and put them to death, and he hung them on five trees; and they hung on the trees until evening.
2 Samuel 21:6
let seven men [chosen] from his sons (descendants) be given to us and we will hang them before the Lord [that is, put them on display, impaled with broken legs and arms] in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen one of the Lord.” And the king said, “I will give them.”
Proverbs 30:17

The eye that mocks a father
And scorns a mother,
The ravens of the valley will pick it out,
And the young vultures will devour it.
Galatians 3:13
Christ purchased our freedom and redeemed us from the curse of the Law and its condemnation by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs [crucified] on a tree (cross)”—

And the birds

Genesis 40:17
and in the top basket there were some of all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds [of prey] were eating [these foods] out of the basket on my head.”
1 Samuel 17:44
The Philistine also said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky and the beasts of the field.”
2 Samuel 21:10
Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest [in the spring] until [the autumn] rain fell on them; and she allowed neither the birds of the sky to rest on their bodies by day, nor the beasts of the field [to feed on them] by night.
Ezekiel 39:4
You will fall [dead] on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the nations who are with you. I will give you to every kind of predatory bird and animal of the field as food.
Acts 20:27
For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose and plan of God.