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Jerome's Latin Vulgate
Josue 10:26
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Percussitque Josue, et interfecit eos, atque suspendit super quinque stipites : fueruntque suspensi usque ad vesperum.
Percussitque Iosue et interfecit eos atque suspendit super quinque ligna; fueruntque suspensi usque ad vesperum.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Joshua: Judges 8:21, 1 Samuel 15:33
hanged: Joshua 8:29, Numbers 25:4, Deuteronomy 21:22, Deuteronomy 21:23, 2 Samuel 21:6, 2 Samuel 21:9, Esther 2:23, Esther 7:9, Esther 7:10, Matthew 27:25, Galatians 3:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 40:19 - hang thee
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And afterwards Joshua smote them and slew them,.... With the sword; either by his own hands, or by others whom he ordered to slay them:
and hanged them on five trees; to their shame and disgrace, and the terror of others:
and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening; by way of contempt of them, and as a spectacle of terror to others, especially to the inhabitants of Makkedah, and their king they were now besieging.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 26. Smote - slew - and hanged them on five trees — Hanging alive seems a barbarous custom: among the Hebrews, criminals were first deprived of life; this was the debt required by justice: then they were hanged up, perhaps generally by the hands, not by the neck; this was done by way of example, to deter others from committing the crimes for which those had suffered: but they were never permitted to hang thus exposed all night, as this could have answered no purpose, either of justice or example, as they could not be seen in the night-season. One day also was deemed enough for their exposure, it being thought sufficient to show the public that justice had been executed; and to have exhibited them longer would have appeared to be a barbarous cruelty which attempted to extend punishment beyond the possible requisitions of justice. Deuteronomy 21:23.
