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Biblia Warszawska

Księga Jozuego 8:29

Król Aj natomiast wisiał na drzewie aż do wieczora, a gdy słońce zaszło, Jozue kazał zdjąć jego zwłoki z drzewa i porzucić je u wejścia do bramy miasta. Wzniesiono nad nim wielki stos kamieni, który istnieje aż do dnia dzisiejszego.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Burial;   Captive;   Hanging;   Punishment;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gallows;   Hanging;   Nation, the;   Punishments;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Evening, the;   Punishments;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Cross;   Punishments;   Stone;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Absalom;   Achan;   Ai;   Pentateuch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Grave;   Hanging;   Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Joshua;   Stone;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Joseph (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ai, Hai ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Stones;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Punishments of the Hebrews;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Absalom (1);   Carcass;   Deuteronomy;   Going;   Heap;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gallows;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A króla Haj dał obiesić na drzewie aż do wieczora, a gdy słońce zachodziło, rozkazał Jozue, aby zjęto trupa jego z drzewa, a porzucono go w samem weściu brany miesckiej i namiotali nań wielką kupę kamienia, która jest aż i do dnia tego.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
A króla Haj obwiesił na drzewie aż do wieczora; a gdy słońce zaszło, rozkazał Jozue, aby zdjęto trupa jego z drzewa, a porzucono go w samem wejściu bramy miejskiej, i namiotali nań kupę wielką kamieni, która jest aż do dnia tego.
Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
Król Aj wisiał na drzewie aż do wieczora. Gdy zachodziło słońce, Jozue kazał zdjąć z drzewa jego zwłoki i porzucić je w otwartej bramie miasta. Wzniesiono nad nim wielki stos kamieni, który jest tam aż do dnia dzisiejszego.
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Natomiast króla Aj do wieczora zawiesili na drzewie. Ponieważ gdy słońce zaszło, Jezus, syn Nuna, polecił, by jego trupa zdjęto z drzewa. Potem rzucono go u wejścia do miejskiej bramy oraz wzniesiono na nim wielki stos kamieni, istniejący aż po dzisiejszy dzień.
Biblia Tysiąclecia
A króla Haj obwiesił na drzewie aż do wieczora; a gdy słońce zaszło, rozkazał Jozue, aby zdjęto trupa jego z drzewa, a porzucono go w samem wejściu bramy miejskiej, i namiotali nań kupę wielką kamieni, która jest aż do dnia tego.
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
A króla Aj powiesił na drzewie aż do wieczora. A gdy słońce zaszło, Jozue kazał zdjąć jego zwłoki z drzewa i porzucić je przy samej bramie miasta, i wznieść nad nim wielki stos kamieni, który trwa aż do dziś.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the king: The kings of Canaan lay under the same curse as their subjects and probably were more deeply criminal. The reserving of the king of Ai for a solemn execution, would tend to strike terror into the other kings, contribute to the success of Israel, and give their proceedings the stamp of a judicial process, and of executing the vengeance of God upon his enemies. Joshua 10:26-28, Joshua 10:30, Joshua 10:33, Deuteronomy 21:22, Deuteronomy 21:23, Esther 7:10, Psalms 107:40, Psalms 110:5, Acts 12:23, Revelation 19:17, Revelation 19:18

as soon: Joshua 10:27

a great heap: Joshua 7:26, 2 Samuel 18:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:19 - hang thee Joshua 8:2 - do to Ai Joshua 8:23 - General Joshua 10:29 - Libnah Joshua 12:9 - Ai 2 Samuel 21:6 - hang Esther 2:23 - hanged

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide,.... By way of terror to other kings in the land of Canaan, that should refuse to submit unto him:

and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree; according to the law in

Deuteronomy 21:23; and that the land might not be defiled:

and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city; this was done, according to Ben Gersom and Abarbinel, that it might be publicly known to the rest of the kings of the nations, that they might be afraid to fight with Israel:

and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day; as a sepulchral monument, showing that there was a person lay interred there; whether there was any inscription on the stone, showing who he was, does not appear; it looks as if it was only a rude heap of stones; and such kind of sepulchral monuments were common in former times in other countries.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Deuteronomy 21:22-23 notes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. The king of Ai he hanged on a tree — He had gone out at the head of his men, and had been taken prisoner, Joshua 8:23; and the battle being over, he was ordered to be hanged, probably after having been strangled, or in some way deprived of life, as in the case mentioned Joshua 10:26, for in those times it was not customary to hang people alive.

As soon as the sun was down — It was not lawful to let the bodies remain all night upon the tree. See the note on Deuteronomy 21:23. The Septuagint say the king of Ai was hanged επι ξυλον διδυμον, upon a double tree, which probably means a forked tree, or something in the form of a cross. The tree on which criminals were hanged among the Romans was called arbor infelix, and lignum infelix, the unfortunate, ill-fated, or accursed tree.

Raise thereon a great heap of stones — This was a common custom through all antiquity in every country, as we have already seen in the case of Achan, Joshua 7:20.


 
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