Deuteronomy 21:23
New King James Version
23 (A)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that (B)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for (C)he who is hanged is accursed of God.
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Joshua 8:29
New King James Version
29 (A)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. (B)And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and (C)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
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Joshua 10:26
New King James Version
26 And afterward Joshua struck [a]them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they (A)were hanging on the trees until evening.
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- Joshua 10:26 The kings
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