^29 (A)And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. ^(B)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 ^(C)raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day.

¹⁷ And they took Absalom and cast him into a large pit in the woods, and ^(A)laid a very large heap of stones over him. Then all Israel ^(B)fled, everyone to his tent.

²⁶ Then they ^(A)raised over him a great heap of stones, still there to this day. So ^(B)the Lord turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore the name of that place has been called ^(C)the Valley of ^[a]Achor to this day.

Miscellaneous Laws

²² “If a man has committed a sin ^(A)deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, ^23 (B)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that ^(C)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for ^(D)he who is hanged is accursed of God.

The Beast and His Armies Defeated

¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of heaven, ^(A)“Come and gather together for the ^[a]supper of the great God, ^18 (B)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, ^[b]free and slave, both small and great.”

²³ Then immediately an angel of the Lord ^(A)struck him, because ^(B)he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and ^[a]died.

¹⁰ So ^(A)they ^(B)hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.