Mark 6:27

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So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison,

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  • Matt 14:10-11 : 10 So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison. 11 His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

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  • Mark 6:28-29
    2 verses
    88%

    28brought back his head on a platter, and presented it to the girl, who gave it to her mother.

    29When John's disciples heard about this, they came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

  • Matt 14:5-11
    7 verses
    86%

    5Though Herod wanted to kill him, he feared the crowd because they considered John to be a prophet.

    6But on Herod's birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and it pleased Herod.

    7Therefore, he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.

    8Prompted by her mother, she said, 'Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.'

    9The king was distressed, but because of his oaths and his guests, he ordered it to be given to her.

    10So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison.

    11His head was brought in on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.

  • Mark 6:16-26
    11 verses
    85%

    16But when Herod heard this, he said, 'John, the man I beheaded, has been raised from the dead.'

    17For Herod himself had sent men to arrest John, and he had him bound and put in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, whom he had married.

    18John had been telling Herod, 'It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.'

    19So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him, but she was unable to do so.

    20For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard John speak, he was greatly perplexed, yet he liked to listen to him.

    21Finally, the opportune time came. On his birthday, Herod gave a banquet for his high officials, military commanders, and the leading men of Galilee.

    22When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests. The king said to the girl, 'Ask me for whatever you want, and I will give it to you.'

    23And he promised her with an oath, 'Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.'

    24She went out and asked her mother, 'What should I ask for?' Her mother answered, 'The head of John the Baptist.'

    25At once the girl hurried in to the king with her request. 'I want you to give me, right now, the head of John the Baptist on a platter,' she said.

    26The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her.

  • Acts 12:2
    71%

    2He executed James, the brother of John, with the sword.

  • 1 Kgs 3:24-25
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    71%

    24Then the king said, 'Bring me a sword.' So they brought a sword before the king.

    25The king said, 'Cut the living child in two, and give half to one and half to the other.'

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
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    16So they seized her, and she was taken by the way of the horse's entrance to the palace, and there she was put to death.

  • Esth 6:4-5
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    4The king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the king’s palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

    5The king’s servants said to him, "Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • Matt 14:3
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    3For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

  • Matt 22:6-7
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    6The rest seized his servants, mistreated them, and killed them.

    7The king was enraged. He sent his army, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    70%

    15So they seized her, and she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's palace, and there they put her to death.

  • 2 Kgs 9:33-34
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    70%

    33He said, 'Throw her down!' So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and the horses as they trampled her underfoot.

    34Jehu went inside, ate and drank, and then said, 'Attend to this cursed woman and bury her, for she was a king’s daughter.'

  • Acts 12:19
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    19After Herod searched for him and did not find him, he interrogated the guards and ordered their execution. Then Herod went down from Judea to Caesarea and stayed there.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
    69%

    31The king said to him, 'Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and my father's house the guilt of the blood that Joab shed without cause.

  • Luke 3:20
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    20added to these things by imprisoning John in prison as well.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
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    17He called his servant who attended him and said, 'Throw this woman out of my presence and bolt the door after her.'

  • 1 Sam 22:16
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    16The king said, 'You shall surely die, Ahimelech, you and your whole family.'

  • 2 Sam 14:16
    68%

    16For the king will hear me and deliver me from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.'

  • 2 Kgs 10:7-8
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    68%

    7When the letter reached them, they took the king’s sons, slaughtered all seventy of them, put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel.

    8When the messenger arrived and told him, "They have brought the heads of the king’s sons," Jehu said, "Place them in two piles at the entrance of the gate until morning."

  • Esth 7:7
    68%

    7The king, filled with wrath, got up from the wine banquet and went out to the palace garden. But Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king had already decided his doom.

  • 2 Kgs 6:31-32
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    68%

    31He said, "May God deal with me, be it ever so severely, if the head of Elisha son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today!"

    32Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer is sending someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger arrives, shut the door and hold it shut against him. Is not the sound of his master's footsteps behind him?"

  • Luke 9:9
    68%

    9But Herod said, 'I beheaded John. Who, then, is this I hear such things about?' And he tried to see him.

  • Esth 6:14
    68%

    14While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 8:7
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    7King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.'

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    68%

    27Then the king gave his ruling: 'Give the living child to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother.'

  • 1 Sam 31:9
    67%

    9They cut off Saul's head, stripped off his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news in the temples of their idols and among the people.

  • Esth 9:25
    67%

    25But when the matter came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    67%

    57As soon as David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the Philistine's head still in his hand.