Joshua 8:29

29 ^xAnd he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. ^yAnd at 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 ^zraised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

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Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Joshua 7:26
And they raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then the LORD turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.

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