Reports of this soon reached the king, and greatly agitated not only him but all the people of Jerusalem.

The girl immediately came in, in haste, to the King and made her request. "My desire is," she said, "that you will give me, here and now, on a dish, the head of John the Baptist."

So He said to them, "A man of noble family travelled to a distant country to obtain the rank of king, and to return.

Next they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who reigned forty years.

A short time after this, Agrippa the king and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a complimentary visit to Festus;

And the Wild Beast which once existed but does not now exist--he is an eighth king and yet is one of the seven and he goes his way into perdition.