9 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head--from you!--and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you."

and he said, "May God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat remains on his shoulders today."

Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. Now the king had dispatched a man from his presence, but before the messenger arrived Elisha said to the elders, "Do you see how this murderer has sent to take off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold the door fast against him. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?"

And she went out and said to her mother, "For what should I ask?" And she said, "The head of John the Baptist."

And she came in immediately 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 with orders to bring John's head. He went and beheaded him in the prison

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

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

But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head.