Genesis 40:19
after which Pharaoh will carry away your head, and also suspend you from a cross, and the birds will tear your flesh.”
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Genesis 40:13after which Pharaoh will remember your service, and he will restore you to your former position. And you will give him the cup according to your office, as you were accustomed to do before.
Genesis 40:22the other he hanged on a gallows, and thus the truth of the interpreter of dreams was proven.
Deuteronomy 21:22When a man will have sinned in a matter which is punished by death, and, having been judged unto death, he has been hanged on a gallows:
Joshua 10:26And Joshua struck them down and killed them, and he suspended them on five gallows. And they hung there until evening.
1 Samuel 17:46Today, the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down. And I will take your head from you. And today, I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air, and to the beasts of the earth, so that all the earth may know that God is with Israel.
2 Samuel 21:10Then Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, taking a haircloth, spread it under herself on a rock, from the beginning of the harvest until water dropped from heaven upon them. And she did not permit the birds to tear them by day, nor the beasts by night.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →