And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. Treasury of Scripture being. 2 Chronicles 22:2,3 Forty and two years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem... Mark 6:24 And she went forth, and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. Give. 1 Kings 18:4,13 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave... 1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me, and more also... 2 Kings 11:1 And when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. Proverbs 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. Proverbs 29:10 The bloodthirsty hate the upright: but the just seek his soul. a charger. Numbers 7:13,19,84,85 And his offering was one silver charger, the weight thereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels... Ezra 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
Context The Beheading of John
1At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus, 2And said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in him. 3For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife. 4For John said to him, It is not lawful for you to have her. 5And when he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet. 6But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod. 7Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatever she would ask. 8And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger. 9And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath's sake, and them which sat with him at meat, he commanded it to be given her. 10And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. 11And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother. 12And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
And she, being put forward by her mother, saith, Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist.
Douay-Rheims Bible
But she being instructed before by her mother, said: Give me here in a dish the head of John the Baptist.
Darby Bible Translation
But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.
King James Bible
And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.
Young's Literal Translation
And she having been instigated by her mother -- 'Give me (says she) here upon a plate the head of John the Baptist;
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