Immediately she rushed to the king and requested, “I want you to give me, right now, the head of John the Immerser on a platter!”
for their feet run to evil and they are swift to shed blood.
His offering was one silver plate weighing 130 shekels, one silver basin weighing 70 shekels by the shekel of the Sanctuary, both of them filled with fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering,
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Immerser, here on a platter!”
In those days, John the Immerser came proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,
She left the room and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” Her mother said, “The head of John the Immerser!”
The king became very sorrowful; but because of his oaths and those reclining with him, he didn’t want to refuse her.
Their feet are swift to shed blood.