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Mark 6:14-28
King Herod heard of it, for Jesus’ name had become known. Some said,“ John the Baptist has been raised from the dead. That is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”But others said,“ He is Elijah.” And others said,“ He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of old.”But when Herod heard of it, he said,“ John, whom I beheaded, has been raised.”For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.For John had been saying to Herod,“ It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”And Herodias had a grudge against him and wanted to put him to death. But she could not,for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and he kept him safe. When he heard him, he was greatly perplexed, and yet he heard him gladly.But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee.For when Herodias’s daughter came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests. And the king said to the girl,“ Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it to you.”And he vowed to her,“ Whatever you ask me, I will give you, up to half of my kingdom.”And she went out and said to her mother,“ For what should I ask?” And she said,“ The head of John the Baptist.”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.”And the king was exceedingly sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he did not want to break his word to her.And immediately the king sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. He went and beheaded him in the prisonand brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.
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Matthew 14:1-12
At that time Herod the tetrarch heard about the fame of Jesus,and he said to his servants,“ This is John the Baptist. He has been raised from the dead; that is why these miraculous powers are at work in him.”For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,because John had been saying to him,“ It is not lawful for you to have her.”And though he wanted to put him to death, he feared the people, because they held him to be a prophet.But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before the company and pleased Herod,so that he promised with an oath to give her whatever she might ask.Prompted by her mother, she said,“ Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”And the king was sorry, but because of his oaths and his guests he commanded it to be given.He sent and had John beheaded in the prison,and his head was brought on a platter and given to the girl, and she brought it to her mother.And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and they went and told Jesus.
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Micah 7:4
The best of them is like a brier, the most upright of them a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, of your punishment, has come; now their confusion is at hand.
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Job 18:11-12
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.His strength is famished, and calamity is ready for his stumbling.
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Luke 21:25
“ And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves,
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Luke 9:19
And they answered,“ John the Baptist. But others say, Elijah, and others, that one of the prophets of old has risen.”
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Psalms 73:19
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
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Luke 3:1
In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
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Isaiah 22:5
For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.