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aHe hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave command and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and raised over it a great heap of stones
that stands to this day.
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Deuteronomy 21:22, Deuteronomy 21:23
Deuteronomy 21
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"If a man has committed a sin aworthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
Deuteronomy 21
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ahis corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for bhe who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you cdo not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance.