And she went out and said to her mother, “For what should I ask?” And she said, “The head of John the Baptist.”
and say: What was your mother? A lioness! Among lions she crouched; in the midst of young lions she reared her cubs. And she brought up one of her cubs; he became a young lion, and he learned to catch prey; he devoured men.
if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who is there that has not been filled with his meat?’
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, as the house of Ahab had done. For after the death of his father they were his counselors, to his undoing.
Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you. Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves. And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies.” But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, “Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both. Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright;
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him,
When evildoers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall.
When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.
Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”
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