2 Samuel 17:23

17:23 When Ahithophel realized that his advice had not been followed, he saddled his donkey and returned to his house in his hometown. After setting his household in order, he hanged himself. So he died and was buried in the grave ¹  of his father.

2 Samuel 18:10

18:10 When one ²  of the men saw this, he reported it to Joab saying, “I saw Absalom hanging in an oak tree.

Genesis 40:19

40:19 In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you ³  and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you.”

Genesis 40:22

40:22 but the chief baker he impaled, just as Joseph had predicted. ⁴ 

Numbers 25:4-5

God’s Punishment

25:4 The Lord said to Moses, “Arrest all the leaders ⁵  of the people, and hang them up ⁶  before the Lord in broad daylight, ⁷  so that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.” 25:5 So Moses said to the judges of Israel, “Each of you must execute those of his men ⁸  who were joined to Baal-peor.”

Deuteronomy 21:22

Disposition of a Criminal’s Remains

21:22 If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse ⁹  on a tree,

Joshua 8:29

8:29 He hung the king of Ai on a tree, leaving him exposed until evening. ¹⁰  At sunset Joshua ordered that his corpse be taken down from the tree. ¹¹  They threw it down at the entrance of the city gate and erected over it a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day). ¹² 

Joshua 10:26

10:26 Then Joshua executed them ¹³  and hung them on five trees. They were left hanging on the trees until evening.

Ezra 6:11

6:11 “I hereby give orders that if anyone changes this directive a beam is to be pulled out from his house and he is to be raised up and impaled ¹⁴  on it, and his house is to be reduced ¹⁵  to a rubbish heap ¹⁶  for this indiscretion. ¹⁷ 

Esther 9:10

9:10 the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not confiscate their property.

Esther 9:13-14

9:13 Esther replied, “If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today’s law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows.”

9:14 So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

Matthew 27:5

27:5 So ¹⁸  Judas threw the silver coins into the temple and left. Then he went out and hanged himself.

[17:23]  ¹ tc The Greek recensions of Origen and Lucian have here “house” for “grave.”

[18:10]  ² tc 4QSam^a lacks the word “one.”

[40:19]  ³ tn Heb “Pharaoh will lift up your head from upon you.” Joseph repeats the same expression from the first interpretation (see v. 13), but with the added words “from upon you,” which allow the statement to have a more literal and ominous meaning – the baker will be decapitated.

[40:22]  ⁴ tn Heb “had interpreted for them.”

[25:4]  ⁵ sn The meaning must be the leaders behind the apostasy, for they would now be arrested. They were responsible for the tribes’ conformity to the Law, but here they had not only failed in their duty, but had participated. The leaders were executed; the rest of the guilty died by the plague.

[25:4]  ⁶ sn The leaders who were guilty were commanded by God to be publicly exposed by hanging, probably a reference to impaling, but possibly some other form of harsh punishment. The point was that the swaying of their executed bodies would be a startling warning for any who so blatantly set the Law aside and indulged in apostasy through pagan sexual orgies.

[25:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “in the sun.” This means in broad daylight.

[25:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “slay – a man his men.” The imperative is plural, and so “man” is to be taken collectively as “each of you men.”

[21:22]  ⁹ tn Heb “him.”

[8:29]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “on a tree until evening.” The words “leaving him exposed” are supplied in the translation for clarity.

[8:29]  ¹¹ sn For the legal background of this action, see Deut 21:22-23.

[8:29]  ¹² tn Heb “to this day.”

[10:26]  ¹³ tn Heb “struck them down and killed them.”

[6:11]  ¹⁴ sn The practice referred to in v. 11 has been understood in various ways: hanging (cf. 1 Esd 6:32 and KJV); flogging (cf. NEB, NLT); impalement (BDB 1091 s.v. זְקַף; HALOT 1914 s.v. מחא hitpe; cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV). The latter seems the most likely.

[6:11]  ¹⁵ tn Aram “made.”

[6:11]  ¹⁶ tn Aram “a dunghill.”

[6:11]  ¹⁷ tn Aram “for this.”

[27:5]  ¹⁸ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the leaders’ response to Judas.