8 occurrences

'Gallows' in the Bible

And the matter was investigated and found [to be so]; and the two of them were hanged on [the] gallows, and it was written in the scroll of the events of the days before the presence of the king.

Verse ConceptsTreasonPeople Hung To DeathHistorical BooksKilling Named Individuals

And Zeresh his wife and all of his friends said to him, "Let them make a gallows fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king, "Let them hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet happily." The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsBad Wives ExamplesTemptressesDimensions Of Other ThingsPeople Hung To DeathNamed Wives

And the king asked, "Who [is] in the courtyard?" Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king's outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Verse ConceptsPeople Hung To Death

And Habrona, one of the eunuchs in the presence of the king, said, "Look, the same gallows that Haman had prepared for Mordecai who spoke good [for the sake] of the king stands at Haman's house, fifty cubits high." And the king said, "Hang him on it."

Verse ConceptsEscaping, Physical ThingsAbasement, Examples OfDimensions Of Other Things

And they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the anger of the king was abated.

Verse ConceptsPurimDeath Of The Wicked, Examples OfHangingAnger Subsiding

And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have given Haman's house to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he {plotted against} the Jews.

Verse ConceptsJews Under ThreatPeople Hung To Death

Esther replied, "If it is good to the king, let tomorrow also be granted to the Jews who [are] in Susa to do according to the edict of today; and let them hang Haman's ten sons on the gallows."

Verse ConceptsTen PeopleMan's Action TomorrowPeople Hung To Death

But when it came {to the attention of} the king, he {gave orders in writing} [that] his evil plot that he had devised against the Jews should return on his head, and they hung him and his sons on the gallows.

Verse ConceptsEvil DevicesPeople Hung To Death

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Butcher (6 instances)
Scaffold (1 instance)

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