And she came in immediately with haste to the king, and asked, saying, “I want you to give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
and his offering was one silver plate whose weight was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a cereal offering;
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,
And she went out, and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the baptizer.”
And the king was exceedingly sorry; but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.
“Their feet are swift to shed blood,