The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.
The king said to Joab, “Behold now, I have granted this thing. Go therefore, and bring the young man Absalom back.”
Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he laboured until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
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,
She came in immediately with haste to the king and requested, “I want you to give me right now the head of Yochanan the Immerser on a platter.”
Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard and commanded to bring Yochanan’s head; and he went and beheaded him in the prison,