Salome

About Salome Written by AI

Salome Salome, mentioned in Matthew 14:6, was the daughter of Herodias and the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. During Herod's birthday celebration, Salome danced before the guests, pleasing Herod so much that he promised to give her whatever she asked, up to half his kingdom. Prompted by her mother Herodias, who held a grudge against John the Baptist for speaking out against her marriage to Herod, Salome requested the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Herod, though grieved, felt bound by his oath and ordered the execution of John the Baptist. Salome's dance and her role in John the Baptist's death highlight the moral corruption and political intrigues within Herod's court.

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Easton's Bible Dictionary, 1897

This entry is on the name Salome, and may cover more than one person or place by that name.

Perfect. (1.) The wife of Zebedee and mother of James and John (Mat. 27:56), and probably the sister of Mary, the mother of our Lord (John 19:25). She sought for her sons places of honour in Christ’s kingdom (Matt. 20:20, 21; comp. 19:28). She witnessed the crucifixion (Mark 15:40), and was present with the other women at the sepulchre (Matt. 27:56).

(2.) “The daughter of Herodias,” not named in the New Testament. On the occasion of the birthday festival held by Herod Antipas, who had married her mother Herodias, in the fortress of Machaerus, she “came in and danced, and pleased Herod” (Mark 6:14-29). John the Baptist, at that time a prisoner in the dungeons underneath the castle, was at her request beheaded by order of Herod, and his head given to the damsel in a charger, “and the damsel gave it to her mother,” whose revengeful spirit was thus gratified. “A luxurious feast of the period” (says Farrar, Life of Christ) “was not regarded as complete unless it closed with some gross pantomimic representation; and doubtless Herod had adopted the evil fashion of his day. But he had not anticipated for his guests the rare luxury of seeing a princess, his own niece, a grand-daughter of Herod the Great and of Mariamne, a descendant, therefore, of Simon the high priest and the great line of Maccabean princes, a princess who afterwards became the wife of a tetrarch [Philip, tetrarch of Trachonitis] and the mother of a king, honouring them by degrading herself into a scenic dancer.”

M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, third edition (1897), public domain, from CrossWire. Shown as written; its Scripture quotes are from older translations.