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Deut. 21:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

And if a man have committed a sin worthyn of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:

Deut. 19:6• ⁶{i}lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, since he hated him not previously.{/i} (Deut. 19:6)

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Acts 25:11,25• ¹¹If then I am a wrong doer, and have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die. But if none of these things is [true] whereof these accuse me, no man can give me up unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
²⁵But as I found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him, (Acts 25:11,25)

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worthy of death.

Heb. of the judgment of death.The Hebrews understand this not of putting to death by hanging, but of hanging a man up after he was stoned to death; which was done more ignominiously of some heinous malefactors. We have the examples of Rechab and Baanah, who, for murdering Ish-bosheth, were slain by David's commandment, their hand and feet cut off, and then hanged up.

2 Sam. 4:12• ¹²And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, {i}and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.{/i} (2 Sam. 4:12)

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Josh. 10:26• ²⁶{i}And afterwards Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.{/i} (Josh. 10:26)

So in Nu 25:4, we read, "And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads (chief men) of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel."

Among the Romans, in after ages, they hanged, or rather fastened to the tree ALIVE; and such was the cruel death of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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Deut. 22:26• ²⁶{i}and unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing: there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death; for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and murdereth him, so is this matter;{/i} (Deut. 22:26)

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1 Sam. 26:16• ¹⁶This thing is not good that thou hast done. As Jehovah liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, Jehovah's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster. (1 Sam. 26:16)

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Matt. 26:66• ⁶⁶{i}What think ye? And they answering said, He is liable to the penalty of death.{/i} (Matt. 26:66)

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Acts 23:29• ²⁹whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have no charge laid worthy of death or bonds. (Acts 23:29)

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Acts 26:31• ³¹and when they had retired, they spoke one to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or bonds. (Acts 26:31)

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2 Sam. 21:6,9• ⁶let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will hang them up unto Jehovah in Gibeah of Saul, whom Jehovah did choose. And the king said, I will give them.
⁹{i}and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before Jehovah. And they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the first days of the harvest, in the beginning of barley harvest.{/i} (2 Sam. 21:6,9)

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Luke 23:33• ³³And when they came to the place called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand and the other on the left. (Luke 23:33)

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John 19:31‑38• ³¹The Jews therefore, since it was the preparation, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for the day of that Sabbath was great), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.
³²The soldiers therefore came and broke the legs of the first and of the other that was crucified with him;
³³but coming to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they broke not his legs,
³⁴but one of the soldiers with a spear thrust his side, and there came out immediately blood and water.
³⁵And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true, and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe.
³⁶For these things came to pass that the scripture might be fulfilled, Not a bone of him shall be crushed;
³⁷and again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
³⁸And after these things Joseph from Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave leave. He came therefore and took his body away. (John 19:31‑38)

• {v.22-23} This may not call for lengthened remark, but assuredly for solemn reflection and profound thankfulness at the grace in which God turns the deepest shame and suffering which man heaped on Jesus to the purposes of redeeming love. (“Deuteronomy 21” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of deatha, and he be put to death, and thou have hanged him on a tree,

JND Translation Notes

Lit. "of a judgment of death."

W. Kelly Translation

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: