24 Bible Verses about Skulls

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Luke 23:33

And when they came to the place which is called Skull, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, the other on the left.

Judges 7:25

And they took the two princes of Mid'ian, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the wine press of Zeeb, as they pursued Mid'ian; and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

1 Samuel 17:46

This day will Jehovah deliver thee up into my hand; and I will smite thee, and take thy head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowl of the heavens and to the wild beasts of the earth. And all the earth shall know that Israel has a God;

1 Samuel 17:51

And David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him completely, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.

1 Samuel 17:54

And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.

1 Samuel 17:57

And as David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him, and brought him before Saul with the head of the Philistine in his hand.

1 Samuel 31:9

And they cut off his head, and stripped off his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings in the houses of their idols, and to the people.

1 Chronicles 10:9-10

And they stripped him, and took his head, and his armour, and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about, to announce the glad tidings to their idols, and to the people. And they put his armour in the house of their god, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

1 Chronicles 10:10

And they put his armour in the house of their god, and fastened his head in the house of Dagon.

2 Samuel 4:7-8

They came into the house, as he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him; and they took his head, and went by the way of the plain all night. And they brought the head of Ishbosheth to David in Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, thine enemy who sought thy life; and Jehovah has given to my lord the king to be avenged this day of Saul and of his seed.

2 Samuel 4:12

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

2 Kings 6:31

And he said, God do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall remain on him this day!

2 Kings 6:32

And Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him. And the king sent a man before him. Before the messenger came to him, he himself said to the elders, Do ye see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? See, when the messenger comes; shut the door, and keep him off with the door: is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

2 Kings 10:6-8

And he wrote a letter the second time to them saying, If ye are mine, and will hearken to my voice, take the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jizreel to-morrow at this time. Now the king's sons, seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up. And it came to pass when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons, and slaughtered seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to him to Jizreel. And a messenger came and told him saying, They have brought the heads of the king's sons. And he said, Lay them in two heaps at the entrance of the gate until the morning.

Matthew 14:8

But she, being set on by her mother, says, Give me here upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

Mark 6:25

And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked saying, I desire that thou give me directly upon a dish the head of John the baptist.

Matthew 14:11

and his head was brought upon a dish, and was given to the damsel, and she carried it to her mother.

Mark 6:28

and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

Judges 9:53

And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abim'elech's head, and crushed his skull.

2 Kings 9:35

And they went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of the hands.

Matthew 27:33

And having come to a place called Golgotha, which means Place of a skull,

Mark 15:22

And they bring him to the place called Golgotha, which, being interpreted, is Place of a skull.

John 19:17

And he went out, bearing his cross, to the place called place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha;

Judges 15:15-17

And he found a fresh jawbone of an ass, and put out his hand and seized it, and with it he slew a thousand men. And Samson said, "With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jawbone of an ass have I slain a thousand men." When he had finished speaking, he threw away the jawbone out of his hand; and that place was called Ra'math-le'hi.

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