Esdras 6:11

La Bible Ostervald

Et de par moi ordre est donné, que si quelqu'un change cette ordonnance, on arrache de sa maison un bois, qui sera dressé, afin qu'il y soit attaché, et qu'à cause de cela on fasse de sa maison une voirie.

Parallel Translations

Darby's French Translation
Et de par moi ordre est donn�, que si quelque homme change ce rescrit, un bois soit arrach� de sa maison et dress�, et qu'il y soit attach�, et que sa maison soit r�duite en un tas de fumier � cause de cela.

Louis Segond (1910)
Et voici l'ordre que je donne touchant quiconque transgressera cette parole: on arrachera de sa maison une pi�ce de bois, on la dressera pour qu'il y soit attach�, et l'on fera de sa maison un tas d'immondices.

La Bible David Martin (1744)
J'ordonne aussi, que quiconque changera ceci, on arrache de sa maison un bois qui sera dress�, afin qu'il y soit extermin�, et qu'� cause de cela on fasse de sa maison une voirie.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whosoever: Ezra 7:26

timber: Esther 5:4, Esther 7:10

hanged: Chal, destroyed

his house: 2 Kings 9:37, 2 Kings 10:27, Daniel 2:5, Daniel 3:29

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 21:6 - hang Daniel 3:28 - and have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word,.... Act contrary to this command, will not obey it, but as much as in him lies changes and revokes it:

let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him, be hanged thereon; that is, let a beam be taken from it, and a gallows or gibbet made of it, and hang him on it:

and let his house be made a dunghill for this; be pulled down, and never rebuilt more, :-,

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Being set up, let him be hanged thereon - Rather, “let him be lifted up and crucified upon it.” Crucifixion was the most common form of capital punishment among the Persians.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 11. Let timber be pulled down — Whether this refers to the punishment of hanging and gibbeting of whipping at a post, or of empaling, is not quite clear. In China they tie culprits to posts; and the executioner cuts them open while alive, takes out their bowels, &c. Empaling thrusting a sharp stake through the body till it comes out at the side of the neck, or hanging, seems to be intended here.

Let his house be made a dunghill — Let it be reduced to ruins, and never more used, except for the most sordid and unclean purposes.