Genesis 40:19
Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
Cross-reference
In Genesis 40:13, the cupbearer is restored in three days — in direct contrast to the baker's execution in three days here.
Genesis 40:17 records the baker's dream of birds eating from baskets — here interpreted as his own flesh devoured after hanging.
In Genesis 40:20, the event fulfills Joseph's interpretation: Pharaoh lifts the baker's head, leading to his hanging.
In Genesis 41:13, the fulfillment of Joseph's interpretation is recorded: the baker was hanged just as he said.
In Ezekiel 39:4, God gives Gog's army corpses to birds — a parallel divine judgment of birds devouring the dead.
Deuteronomy 21:22 prescribes hanging on a tree for capital offenders — the same method of execution applied to the baker.
Deuteronomy 21:23 declares a hanged man is cursed by God — this theological weight underlies the baker's fate.
In 1 Samuel 17:46, David declares Goliath's body will be given to birds — the same judgment imagery as the baker's fate.
Joshua 8:29 recounts the hanging of the king of Ai on a tree until evening — another OT example of this execution practice.
Joshua 10:26 records Joshua hanging five defeated kings on trees — a parallel instance of this form of capital punishment.
2 Samuel 21:6 describes hanging men before the Lord — another biblical case of execution by hanging on a tree.