⁸ So she, having been prompted by her mother, said, “Give me John the Baptist’s head here on a platter.”

² Ahaziah was ^[a]forty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was ^(A)Athaliah the ^[b]granddaughter of Omri. ³ He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother advised him to do wickedly.

²⁴ So she went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask?”

And she said, “The head of John the Baptist!”