REFERENCE

BEHEADED

Numbers 25:4-5

[25:4] And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. [25:5] And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor .

Judges 5:26

She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head , when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. (Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite smote off the head of Sisera)

Judges 7:25

And they took two princes of the Midianites, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb upon the rock Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian, and brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon on the other side Jordan.

I Samuel 17:51

Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine , and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled. (Goliath)

I Samuel 31:9, I Chronicles 10:8-10

[I Samuel 31:9] And they cut off his head , and stripped off his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to publish it in the house of their idols, and among the people. [I Chronicles 10:8] And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa. [10:9] And when they had stripped him, they took his head , and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people. [10:10] And they put his armour in the house of their gods, and fastened his head in the temple of Dagon.

II Samuel 4:7-8

[4:7] For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him , and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night. [4:8] And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ishbosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the LORD hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

II Samuel 4:12

And David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth , and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

II Samuel 20:22

Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and cast it out to Joab. And he blew a trumpet, and they retired from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

II Kings 10:7

And it came to pass, when the letter came to them, that they took the king's sons , and slew seventy persons, and put their heads in baskets , and sent him them to Jezreel. (The men of Samaria slew Ahab's 70 sons)

Matthew 14:10, Mark 6:16, 25-27, Luke 9:9

[Matthew 14:10] And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. [Mark 6:16] But when Herod heard thereof, he said, It is John, whom I beheaded: he is risen from the dead. [6:25] 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 the Baptist . [6:26] And the king was exceeding sorry; yet for his oath's sake, and for their sakes which sat with him, he would not reject her. [6:27] And immediately the king sent an executioner, and commanded his head to be brought: and he went and beheaded him in the prison , [Luke 9:9] And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him. (John the Baptist)

Revelation 20:4

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. (Christ's witnesses)