Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist's head in a charger.

General references

Bible References

Being

2 Chronicles 22:2
Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.
Mark 6:24
She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?” And Herodias replied, “The head of John the Baptist!”

Give

1 Kings 18:4
for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)
1 Kings 19:2
Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, “So may the gods do to me, and even more, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like the life of one of them.”
2 Kings 11:1
When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah [king of Judah] saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the royal offspring.
Proverbs 1:16

For their feet run to evil,
And they hurry to shed blood.
Proverbs 29:10

The bloodthirsty hate the blameless [because of his integrity],
But the upright are concerned for his life.

A charger

Numbers 7:13
and his offering was one silver dish, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver basin of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering;
Ezra 1:9
And they counted: 30 dishes (basins) of gold, 1,000 dishes of silver, 29 duplicates;

General references

Luke 23:20
Pilate addressed them again, wanting to release Jesus,