⁸ Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

² Ahaziah was forty-two years old when he began to reign; he reigned one year in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Athaliah, a granddaughter of Omri.^{(A) 3} He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in doing wickedly.

²⁴ She went out and said to her mother, “What should I ask for?” She replied, “The head of John the baptizer.”