A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed

Deuteronomy 21

²² "If a man has committed a sin _r deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, ²³ _s "his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that _t you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for _u he who is hanged is accursed of God.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 22:26
   But you shall do nothing to the young woman; there is in the young woman no sin deserving of death, for just as when a man rises against his neighbor and kills him, even so is this matter.
   Matthew 26:66
   "What do you think?" They answered and said, "He is deserving of death."
   Mark 14:64
   You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
   Acts 23:29
   I found out that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or chains.
   
2. Cross References
   Joshua 8:29
   And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.
   Joshua 10:26
   And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging on the trees until evening.
   Joshua 10:27
   So it was at the time of the going down of the sun that Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, cast them into the cave where they had been hidden, and laid large stones against the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
   John 19:31
   Therefore, because it was the Preparation Day, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
   
3. Cross References
   Leviticus 18:25
   For the land is defiled; therefore I visit the punishment of its iniquity upon it, and the land vomits out its inhabitants.
   Numbers 35:34
   'Therefore do not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD dwell among the children of Israel.'"
   
4. Cross References
   Galatians 3:13
   Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree").