Beheading

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

• Homicide
• Punishment

And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

• Curiosity

And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

• Punishment
• Superstition

But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead.

• Homicide

And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison,

The matter is not so: but a man of mount Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David: deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

• Herod
• Homicide

And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.

And he sware unto her, Whatsoever thou shalt ask of me, I will give it thee, unto the half of my kingdom.

And brought his head in a charger, and gave it to the damsel: and the damsel gave it to her mother.

• Angel

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

• Feasts
• Birthdays
• Feasts

And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.

And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

• Reproof

For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife.

• Complicity
• Women

And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

• Pit

And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

• Death

And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.