7 Bible Verses about Executioners

The king immediately sent for an executioner and commanded him to bring John’s head. So he went and beheaded him in prison,

Then He called to me directly with a loud voice, “Come near, executioners of the city, each of you with a destructive weapon in his hand.”

Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported the rest of the people to Babylon—those who had remained in the city and those deserters who had defected to him along with the rest of the people who had remained.

Then Daniel responded with tact and discretion to Arioch, the commander of the king’s guard, who had gone out to execute the wise men of Babylon.

Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and the captain of the guard.

A king’s fury is a messenger of death,
but a wise man appeases it.

So he sent orders and had John beheaded in the prison.