But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.
Parallel translations
- KJV But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
- BSB On Herod’s birthday, however, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod
- NKJV But when Herod’s birthday was celebrated, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod.
- NASB But when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,
- NLT But at a birthday party for Herod, Herodias’s daughter performed a dance that greatly pleased him,
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- Mark 6:21–23Then a convenient day came, that Herod on his birthday made a supper for his nobles, the high officers, and the chief men of Galilee.
- Gen 40:20On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Hos 1:5–6It will happen in that day that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.”
- Mark 6:17For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her.
- Matt 22:24saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife, and raise up offspring for his brother.’
- Esth 1:2–12in those days, when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
- Mark 6:19Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
- Dan 5:1–4Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
- Luke 3:19but Herod the tetrarch, being reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things which Herod had done,
- Esth 2:18Then the king made a great feast for all his princes and his servants, even Esther’s feast; and he proclaimed a holiday in the provinces, and gave gifts according to the king’s bounty.
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