Mark 6:28

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

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  • Matt 14:5-12
    8 verses
    92%

    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.

    12Then John's disciples came, took the body, buried it, and went and told Jesus.

  • Mark 6:22-27
    6 verses
    88%

    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.

    27So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John's head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison,

  • Mark 6:29
    78%

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

  • 2 Kgs 4:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19He said to his father, "My head! My head!" His father told a servant, "Carry him to his mother."

    20The servant carried the boy to his mother, and the child sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.

  • 2 Kgs 9:33-35
    3 verses
    71%

    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.'

    35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing of her except the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    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.

  • Mark 6:16-17
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    71%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 31:9
    71%

    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.

  • 1 Chr 10:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

    9They stripped him, took his head and armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news to their idols and their people.

    10They put his armor in the temple of their gods and impaled his skull in the temple of Dagon.

  • 2 Sam 4:7-8
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    70%

    7After entering the house while Ishbosheth was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him, killed him, and cut off his head. Taking his head with them, they traveled along the road through the Arabah all night.

    8They brought the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, "Here is the head of Ishbosheth, the son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life. Today the LORD has given my lord the king revenge against Saul and his descendants."

  • 1 Kgs 3:24-25
    2 verses
    70%

    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
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
    68%

    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 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."

  • 1 Sam 17:54
    68%

    54David took the Philistine's head and brought it to Jerusalem, but he kept the Philistine's weapons in his tent.

  • Acts 12:2
    68%

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

  • 2 Sam 1:10
    68%

    10So I stood over him and killed him, because I knew he could not survive after he had fallen. I took the crown that was on his head and the bracelet that was on his arm, and I have brought them here to my lord.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28Then the king asked her, "What is your problem?" She replied, "This woman said to me, 'Give me your son so we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

    29So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day, I said to her, 'Give me your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden her son."

  • 2 Sam 4:12
    67%

    12So David commanded his young men, and they killed them. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in Abner's tomb in Hebron.

  • Luke 7:15
    67%

    15The dead man sat up and began to speak, and Jesus gave him back to his mother.

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    67%

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

  • Luke 9:9
    67%

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

  • Ezek 23:10
    66%

    10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became a byword among women, and they carried out judgment against her.

  • Matt 14:3
    66%

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

  • 2 Sam 14:6
    66%

    6Your servant had two sons. They were fighting in the field, with no one there to separate them, and one of them struck the other and killed him.

  • Judg 5:27
    66%

    27At her feet he sank, he fell, there he lay. At her feet he sank, he fell; where he sank, there he fell—dead.

  • 1 Sam 15:33
    66%

    33Samuel said, 'As your sword has made women childless, so will your mother be childless among women.' Then Samuel cut Agag to pieces before the LORD at Gilgal.

  • Acts 5:10
    66%

    10At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband.

  • Luke 8:55
    66%

    55Her spirit returned, and she immediately stood up. Then He directed them to give her something to eat.