Mark 6:28

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

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  • Matt 14:5-12
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    92%

    5Although Herod wanted to kill John, he feared the crowd because they accepted John as a prophet.

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

    7so much that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she asked.

    8Instructed by her mother, she said,“Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

    9Although it grieved the king, because of his oath and the dinner guests he commanded it to be given.

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

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

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

  • Mark 6:22-27
    6 verses
    88%

    22When his daughter 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.”

    23He swore to her,“Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

    24So she went out and said to her mother,“What should I ask for?” Her mother said,“The head of John the baptizer.”

    25Immediately she hurried back to the king and made her request:“I want the head of John the Baptist on a platter immediately.”

    26Although it grieved the king deeply, he did not want to reject her request because of his oath and his guests.

    27So the king sent an executioner at once to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded John in prison.

  • Mark 6:29
    78%

    29When John’s disciples heard this, they came and took his body and placed it in a tomb.

  • 2 Kgs 4:19-20
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    72%

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

    20So he picked him up and took him to his mother. He sat on her lap until noon and then died.

  • 2 Kgs 9:33-35
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    33He said,“Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and when she hit the ground, her blood splattered against the wall and the horses, and Jehu drove his chariot over her.

    34He went inside and had a meal. Then he said,“Dispose of this accursed woman’s corpse. Bury her, for after all, she was a king’s daughter.”

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

  • 1 Sam 17:57
    71%

    57So when David returned from striking down the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul. He still had the head of the Philistine in his hand.

  • Mark 6:16-17
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    16But when Herod heard this, he said,“John, whom I beheaded, has been raised!”

    17For Herod himself had sent men, arrested John, and bound him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because Herod had married her.

  • 1 Sam 31:9
    71%

    9They cut off Saul’s head and stripped him of his armor. They sent messengers to announce the news in the temple of their idols and among their people throughout the surrounding land of the Philistines.

  • 1 Chr 10:9-10
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    9They stripped his corpse, and then carried off his head and his armor. They sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines proclaiming the news to their idols and their people.

    10They placed his armor in the temple of their gods and hung his head in the temple of Dagon.

  • 2 Sam 4:7-8
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    7They had entered the house while Ish-bosheth was resting on his bed in his bedroom. They mortally wounded him and then cut off his head. Taking his head, they traveled on the way of the rift valley all that night.

    8They brought the head of Ish-bosheth to David in Hebron, saying to the king,“Look! The head of Ish-bosheth son of Saul, your enemy who sought your life! The LORD has granted vengeance to my lord the king this day against Saul and his descendants!”

  • 1 Kgs 3:24-25
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    24The king ordered,“Get me a sword!” So they placed a sword before the king.

    25The king then 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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    16They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There she was executed.

  • 2 Chr 23:15
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    15They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There they executed her.

  • 2 Kgs 10:7-8
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    7When they received the letter, they seized the king’s sons and executed all seventy of them. They put their heads in baskets and sent them to him in Jezreel.

    8The messenger came and told Jehu,“They have brought the heads of the king’s sons.” Jehu said,“Stack them in two piles at the entrance of the city gate until morning.”

  • 1 Sam 17:54
    68%

    54David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his tent.

  • Acts 12:2
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    2He had James, the brother of John, executed with a sword.

  • 2 Sam 1:10
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    10So I stood over him and put him to death, since I knew that he couldn’t live in such a condition. Then I took the crown which was on his head and the bracelet which was on his arm. I have brought them here to my lord.”

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-29
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    67%

    28Then the king asked her,“What’s your problem?” She answered,“This woman said to me,‘Hand over your son; we’ll eat him today and then eat my son tomorrow.’

    29So we boiled my son and ate him. Then I said to her the next day,‘Hand over your son and we’ll eat him.’ But she hid her son!”

  • 2 Sam 4:12
    67%

    12So David issued orders to the soldiers and they put them to death. Then they cut off their hands and feet and hung them near the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in the tomb of Abner in Hebron.

  • Luke 7:15
    67%

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

  • 1 Kgs 3:27
    67%

    27The king responded,“Give the first woman the living child; don’t kill him. She is the mother.”

  • Luke 9:9
    67%

    9Herod said,“I had John beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?” So Herod wanted to learn about Jesus.

  • Ezek 23:10
    66%

    10They exposed her nakedness, seized her sons and daughters, and killed her with the sword. She became notorious among women, and they executed judgments against her.

  • Matt 14:3
    66%

    3For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

  • 2 Sam 14:6
    66%

    6Your servant has two sons. When the two of them got into a fight in the field, there was no one present who could intervene. One of them struck the other and killed him.

  • Judg 5:27
    66%

    27Between her feet he collapsed, he fell limp and was lifeless; between her feet he collapsed and fell, in the spot where he collapsed, there he fell– violently killed!

  • 1 Sam 15:33
    66%

    33Samuel said,“Just as your sword left women childless, so your mother will be the most bereaved among women!” Then Samuel hacked Agag to pieces there in Gilgal before the LORD.

  • Acts 5:10
    66%

    10At once she collapsed at his feet and died. So when the young men came in, they found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her beside her husband.

  • Luke 8:55
    66%

    55Her spirit returned, and she got up immediately. Then he told them to give her something to eat.