5 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

So she went out and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist!"

Immediately she came in 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 immediately the king sent an executioner and gave orders to bring his head. He went and beheaded him in the prison,

And Herod said, "John I have beheaded, but who is this about whom I hear such things?" So he sought to see him.

Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom judgment was given. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony to Jesus and because of the word of God, and who had not worshipped the beast or his image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.