9 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

Yet within three days Pharaoh shall lift up your head from off you, and shall hang you on a tree. And the birds shall eat your flesh from off you.

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

But Elisha sat in his house, and the elders sat with him. And he sent a man from before him. But before the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, Do you see how this son of a murderer has sent to take away my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door and hold him fast at the door. Is not the sound of his master's feet behind him?

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

And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that you give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

And immediately the king sent an executioner and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in the prison,

And Herod said, John I have beheaded, but who is this of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see Him.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast nor his image, nor had received his mark on their foreheads, nor in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

But You, O Jehovah, are a shield for me; my glory, the One who lifts up my head.