5 Bible Verses about Removing Heads

She left the room and asked her mother, "What shall I ask him for?" And she answered, "The head of John the Baptist."

Then she rushed at once before the king, and made this request, "I want you this very minute to give me John the Baptist's head on a platter."

and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison

So Herod said, "John I beheaded, but who can this be about whom I hear such reports?" So he was trying to see Him.

Then I saw thrones and those who were seated on them, and permission was granted them to pass judgment, even those who had been beheaded for bearing testimony to Jesus and for preaching the word of God, who refused to worship the wild beast and his statue, and would not let his mark be stamped upon their foreheads and upon their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.