9 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha, the son of Shaphat, shall remain upon him today.

And Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man unto him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door, and hold him fast at the door; is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

And she went forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

And she came in with haste unto the king and asked, saying, I will that thou give me immediately in a platter the head of John the Baptist.

And straightway the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought, and he went and beheaded him in the prison

And Herod said, I have beheaded John, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

And I saw thrones, and those who sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them; and I saw the souls of those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not worshipped the beast neither its image neither had received its mark upon their foreheads or in their hands; and they shall live and reign with Christ the thousand years.

But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory and the lifter up of my head.