23 ^bhis body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for ^ca hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not ^ddefile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

29 And he ^ahanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And ^bat sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and ^craised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

26 And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he ^yhanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees ^zuntil evening. 27 But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.