24 Bible Verses about Skulls

They came to the place called the skull. They impaled him and the criminals, one on the right hand and the other on the left.

They captured the two Midianite chiefs, Oreb and Zeeb; they killed Oreb at Oreb Rock, and Zeeb at the Winepress of Zeeb. They continued to pursue the Midianites and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon, who was now east of the Jordan.

Today Jehovah will help me defeat you. I will knock you down and cut off your head! I will feed the bodies of the other Philistine soldiers to the birds and wild animals. Then the whole world will know that Israel has a real God.

He ran to him and stood over him. David took Goliath's sword out of its sheath and cut off his head to kill him. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead they ran away.

David took the head of the Philistine to Jerusalem. But he put his armor in his tent.

When David returned from killing the Philistine, Abner took him and brought him before Saul with the Philistine's head in his hand.

They cut off his head and stripped off his armor. Then they sent men throughout Philistine territory to tell the people this good news in their idols' temples.

They stripped him and took his head and his armor, and sent messengers throughout the land of the Philistines to proclaim the news among their idols and their people. They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.

They put his armor in the temple of their gods and hung up his head in the temple of Dagon.

They cut off his head and took his head with them. They traveled by way of the Arabah all night. They took the head of Ishbosheth to David at Hebron and said to the king, Here is the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, your enemy, who sought your life. Jehovah has given my lord the king vengeance this day on Saul and his descendants.

David gave the order for his soldiers to kill Rechab and Baanah and cut off their hands and feet. They killed them and hung their hands and feet near the pool in Hebron. They took Ishbosheth's head and buried it in Abner's tomb there at Hebron.

He exclaimed: May God strike me dead if Elisha is not beheaded before the day is over!

He sent a messenger to get Elisha. Meanwhile Elisha was at home with some elders who were visiting him. Before the messenger arrived, Elisha said to the elders: That murderer is sending someone to kill me! When he gets here, shut the door. Do not let him come in. The king will follow him.

Jehu wrote them another letter: If you are with me and are ready to follow my orders, bring the heads of King Ahab's descendants to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow. The seventy descendants of King Ahab were under the care and were being brought up by the leading citizens of Samaria. As soon as Jehu's letter arrived, the leaders of Samaria killed all seventy of Ahab's descendants and put their heads in baskets, and sent them to Jehu at Jezreel. Jehu was informed that the heads of Ahab's descendants had been brought. He ordered them to be piled up in two heaps at the city gate and left there until the following morning.

Prompted by her mother, she said: Give me John the Baptist's head on a platter.

At once she went to the king and asked: Will you give me the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

His head was brought on a platter to the young lady. She in turn gave it to her mother.

He brought his head on a platter and gave it to the young lady. In turn she gave it to her mother.

A woman threw a millstone down on his head and fractured his skull.

They went to bury her, but they found nothing to bury. There were only the bones of her head, and her feet, and parts of her hands.

Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, was to be his final destination.

They brought him to the place called Golgotha. This means the place of a skull.

They took Jesus bearing his own stake to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Samson found a fresh jawbone of a donkey. He picked it up, and killed a thousand men with it. Then Samson said: With the jawbone of a donkey I piled them in piles. With the jawbone of a donkey I killed a thousand men. When he finished speaking he threw the jawbone away. The place where this happened was named Ramath Lehi.