24 Bible Verses about Skulls
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And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, there they crucified him: and the evildoers, one on right hand, and the other on the left.
And they took two captains of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb, and slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb at the press Zeeb and followed after Midian. And brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.
This day shall the LORD deliver thee into my hand, and I shall smite thee and take thine head from thee, and will give the carcasses of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the earth - and all the world shall know that there is a God in Israel.
he ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and slew him and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
And David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem: But he put his armour in his tent.
And so when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul, with the head of the Philistine in his hand.
And they cut off his head and stripped him out of his harness, and sent unto the land of the Philistines everywhere, to publish in the houses of their gods and to the people.
And when they had stripped him they took his head and his harness and sent them into the land of the Philistines round about to show tidings unto their idols and to the people. And they put his harness in the houses of their gods. But his skull they hanged in the house of Dagon.
And they put his harness in the houses of their gods. But his skull they hanged in the house of Dagon.
For they came into the house as he slept on his bed in his resting chamber, and smote him and slew him and beheaded him and took his head and gat them away through the wild fields all night. And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David, to Hebron and said to the king, "Behold there the head of Ishbosheth Saul's son, thine enemy, which sought thy soul. But the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul and of his seed."
And David commanded his young men, and they slew them and cut off their hands and their feet and hanged them up by the pole in Hebron. And they took the head of Ishbosheth and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.
Then he said, "God do so and so to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat tarry on him this day!"
And as Elisha sat in his house and the elders with him, the king sent one from him. But yer the messenger came at him, he said to the elders, "See you not how the son of this murderer hath sent, to take off mine head? Be circumspect therefore when the messenger cometh, and shut the door, and thrust him back therewith: for the sound of his master's feet followeth him."
Then he wrote another letter to them saying, "If ye be mine and will obey my voice, then take the heads of your master's sons and come to me to Jezreel, by tomorrow this time." And the king's sons were seventy persons with the great men of the city which nourished them. And when the letter came to them, they took the king's children and slew them in number, seventy persons, and put their heads in coffins and sent them to him to Jezreel. And there came a messenger and told him, saying, "They have brought the heads of the king's sons." And he said, "Let them put them on two heaps in the entering of the gate, till it be day."
And she, being informed of her mother before, said, "Give me here John Baptist's head in a platter."
And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, "I will, that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John Baptist."
and his head was brought in a platter, and given to the damsel, and she brought it to her mother.
And he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a charger and gave it to the maiden, and the maiden gave it to her mother.
But a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon his head and all to break his brainpan.
And when they came to bury her, they found no more of her, than the skull and the two feet and the two hands.
And when they came unto the place, which is called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of dead men's skulls,
And they brought him to a place named Golgotha: which is, by interpretation, the place of dead men's skulls.
And he bare his cross, and went forth into a place called the place of dead men's skulls: which is named in Hebrew, Golgotha:
And he found a jawbone of a ratten ass, and put forth his hand and caught it, and slew a thousand men therewith. And Samson said, "With the jaw of an ass, have I made heaps: with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men!" And when he had left speaking he cast away the jaw out of his hand and called the place Ramathlehi.