¹⁹ Within three days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from you and put your body up on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

²⁰ On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a special supper for his servants. He gave honor to the head cup-carrier and the head bread-maker among his servants. ²¹ He returned the head cup-carrier to his place of work and he put the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. ²² But he killed the head bread-maker on a tree, just like Joseph had told them it would happen.

²⁹ He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. When the sun went down, Joshua had them take his body down from the tree and throw it down at the gate of the city. They put many stones over it, and they are there to this day.

¹² Then David had the young men kill them and cut off their hands and feet. They hung them up beside the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s grave in Hebron.

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the tower that he had made for Mordecai. Then the king’s anger became less.