Reference: Hanging
Easton
(as a punishment), a mark of infamy inflicted on the dead bodies of criminals (De 21:23) rather than our modern mode of punishment. Criminals were first strangled and then hanged (Nu 25:4; De 21:22). (See 2Sa 21:6 for the practice of the Gibeonites.)
Hanging (as a curtain). (1.) Heb masak, (a) before the entrance to the court of the tabernacle (Ex 35:17); (b) before the door of the tabernacle (Ex 26:36-37); (c) before the entrance to the most holy place, called "the veil of the covering" (Ex 35:12; 39:34), as the word properly means.
(2.) Heb kelaim, tapestry covering the walls of the tabernacle (Ex 27:9; 35:17; Nu 3:26) to the half of the height of the wall (Ex 27:18; comp. Ex 26:16). These hangings were fastened to pillars.
(3.) Heb bottim (2Ki 23:7), "hangings for the grove" (R.V., "for the Asherah"); marg., instead of "hangings," has "tents" or "houses." Such curtained structures for idolatrous worship are also alluded to in Eze 16:16.
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Ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and half a cubit the breadth of one board.
And make a covering for the door of the tent, cerulean purple, red purple, and double scarlet and white byssus, a variegated work. And make for the covering five acacia pillars, and spread them over with gold, their pegs gold: and cast for them five bases of brass.
And make an enclosure to the tent: for the side south of the right hand, curtains for the enclosure, twisted byssus a hundred of cubits the length, for the one side.
The length of the enclosure a hundred by cubits, and the breadth, fifty by fifty, and the height five cubits of twisted byssus, and the bases brass.
The ark and its staves, the cover, and vail of the covering;
The curtains of the enclosure, its pillars, its bases, and the covering of the gate of the enclosure;
The curtains of the enclosure, its pillars, its bases, and the covering of the gate of the enclosure;
And the covering of skins of rams made red, and the covering of tahash skins, and the vail of the covering;
And the curtains of the enclosure, and the covering of the door of the enclosure, which is by the dwelling, and upon the altar round about, and its cords, and all its works.
And Jehovah will say to Moses, Take all the heads of the people and hang them up to Jehovah before the sun, and the burning anger of Jehovah shall turn back from Israel.
And when there shall be sin in a man of the judgment of death, and he being put to death, and thou shalt hang him upon a tree: His carcass shall not pass the night upon the tree; for burying, ye shall bury him in that day, for he being hung is the curse of God; and thou shalt not defile thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.
Seven men of his sons shall be given to us and we will hang them up before Jehovah in the hill of Saul, the chosen of Jehovah. And the king will say, I will give.
And he will break down the houses of the holy places, which were in the house of Jehovah, where the women wove there houses for the image.
And thou wilt take from thy garments and make to thee heights being spotted, and thou wilt commit fornication upon them: thou earnest not in, and it shall not be.
Fausets
Criminals were usually put to death before hanging, for ignominy (Jos 10:26). The bodies were removed before nightfall in order not to defile the land (De 21:22-23). Hence our Lord's body as those of the two thieves was taken from the cross before the "high day" of the approaching "sabbath" (Joh 19:31).
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And when there shall be sin in a man of the judgment of death, and he being put to death, and thou shalt hang him upon a tree: His carcass shall not pass the night upon the tree; for burying, ye shall bury him in that day, for he being hung is the curse of God; and thou shalt not defile thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance.
And Joshua will smite them after this, and will kill them, and hang them upon five trees: and they will be hanging upon the trees till evening.
Then the Jews, that the bodies remain not upon the cross in the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for great was the day of that sabbath,) asked Pilate that their legs be broken, and they be taken away.
Hastings
Morish
See PUNISHMENTS.