Deuteronomy 19:18-20

19:18 The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused, ¹  19:19 you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge ²  evil from among you. 19:20 The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

Esther 7:10

7:10 So they hanged Haman on the very gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. The king’s rage then abated.

Esther 9:25

9:25 But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king ³  gave written orders that Haman’s ⁴  evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

Proverbs 11:8

11:8 The righteous person is delivered ⁵  out of trouble,

and the wicked turns up in his stead. ⁶ 

¹ tn Heb “his brother” (also in the following verse).

² tn Heb “you will burn out” (בִּעַרְתָּ, bi’arta). Like a cancer, unavenged sin would infect the whole community. It must, therefore, be excised by the purging out of its perpetrators who, presumably, remained unrepentant (cf. Deut 13:6; 17:7, 12; 21:21; 22:21-22, 24; 24:7).

³ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Haman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The verb is the Niphal perfect from the first root חָלַץ (khalats), meaning “to draw off; to withdraw,” and hence “to be delivered.”

⁶ tn The verb is masculine singular, so the subject cannot be “trouble.” The trouble from which the righteous escape will come on the wicked – but the Hebrew text literally says that the wicked “comes [= arrives; turns up; shows up] in the place of the righteous.” Cf. NASB “the wicked takes his place”; NRSV “the wicked get into it instead”; NIV “it comes on the wicked instead.”