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Geneva Bible
Mark 6:27
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- InternationalContextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the king: Matthew 14:10, Matthew 14:11
an executioner: or, one of his guard, נוךןץכבפשס [Strong's G4688], in Latin, speculator, from speculor, to look about, spy, properly denotes a sentinel; and as these sentinels kept guard at the palaces of kings, and the residences of Roman governors, so they were employed in other offices besides guarding, and usually performed that of executioners. As, however, we learn from Josephus, that Herod was at this very time engaged in war with Aretas, king of Arabia, in consequence of Herod's having divorced his daughter in order to marry Herodias, his brother Philip's wife; and as this event occurred at an entertainment given at the castle of Machaerus, while his army was on its march against his father-in-law; we are furnished with an additional reason why a speculator, or sentinel, should have been employed as an executioner; and are thus enabled to discover such a latent and undesigned coincidence as clearly evinces the truth of the evangelical narrative.
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:7 - I hate him Proverbs 16:14 - messengers Daniel 3:6 - the same Mark 6:14 - king Herod Revelation 20:4 - beheaded
Cross-References
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And immediately the king sent an executioner,....
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and commanded his head to be brought; ordered him to cut off his head in prison, and bring it away forthwith in a charger to him:
and he went and beheaded him in the prison; according to his orders.
