Mark 6:26

World English Bible (2000)

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn't wish to refuse her.

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  • Matt 14:9 : 9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,
  • Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that Jesus was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, "I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood." But they said, "What is that to us? You see to it." 5 He threw down the pieces of silver in the sanctuary, and departed. He went away and hanged himself.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it." 25 All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

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  • Matt 14:3-11
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    3 For Herod had laid hold of John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.

    4 For John said to him, "It is not lawful for you to have her."

    5 When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

    6 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.

    7 Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she should ask.

    8 She, being prompted by her mother, said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptizer."

    9 The king was grieved, but for the sake of his oaths, and of those who sat at the table with him, he commanded it to be given,

    10 and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

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

  • Mark 6:27-28
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    27 Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John's head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

    28 and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.

  • Mark 6:16-25
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    16 But Herod, when he heard this, said, "This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead."

    17 For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her.

    18 For John said to Herod, "It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife."

    19 Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn't,

    20 for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. When he heard him, he did many things, and he heard him gladly.

    21 Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.

    22 When the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and those sitting with him. The king said to the young lady, "Ask me whatever you want, and I will give it to you."

    23 He swore to her, "Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom."

    24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

    25 She came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, "I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptizer on a platter."

  • Luke 3:19-20
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    19 but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,

    20 added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

  • 2 Kgs 9:33-34
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    33 He said, "Throw her down!" So they threw her down; and some of her blood was sprinkled on the wall, and on the horses. Then he trampled her under foot.

    34 When he was come in, he ate and drink; and he said, "See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king's daughter."

  • Dan 6:14-15
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    14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

    15 Then these men assembled together to the king, and said to the king, Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians, that no decree nor statute which the king establishes may be changed.

  • 2 Kgs 6:28-30
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    28 The king said to her, "What ails you?" She answered, "This woman said to me, 'Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.'

    29 So we boiled my son, and ate him: and I said to her on the next day, 'Give your son, that we may eat him;' and she has hidden her son."

    30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.

  • Luke 9:9
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    9 Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who is this, about whom I hear such things?" He sought to see him.

  • Esth 6:4-5
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    4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

    5 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • 1 Kgs 3:25-27
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    25 The king said, "Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other."

    26 Then the woman whose the living child was spoke to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, "Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it!" But the other said, "It shall be neither mine nor yours. Divide it."

    27 Then the king answered, "Give her the living child, and in no way kill it. She is its mother."

  • Matt 22:6-7
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    6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.

    7 When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.

  • 2 Sam 14:15-16
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    15 Now therefore seeing that I have come to speak this word to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid: and your handmaid said, 'I will now speak to the king; it may be that the king will perform the request of his servant.'

    16 For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

  • Esth 7:7
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    7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

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    12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by the eunuchs. Therefore the king was very angry, and his anger burned in him.

  • 2 Sam 13:17
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    17 Then he called his servant who ministered to him, and said, "Put now this woman out from me, and bolt the door after her."

  • Dan 5:6
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    6 Then the king's face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

  • Esth 6:14
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    14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

  • 2 Kgs 11:16
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    16 So they made way for her; and she went by the way of the horses' entry to the king's house. She was slain there.

  • Esth 5:5-6
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    5 Then the king said, "Bring Haman quickly, so that it may be done as Esther has said." So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

    6 The king said to Esther at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

  • 2 Sam 14:13
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    13 The woman said, "Why then have you devised such a thing against the people of God? For in speaking this word the king is as one who is guilty, in that the king does not bring home again his banished one.

  • Eccl 8:2
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    2 I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God.