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Herod [Antipas] had John arrested, bound in chains, and put in prison for the sake of Herodias, who was married to his brother Philip.
[According to the Jewish historian Josephus, John the Baptist was imprisoned in the basement of the fortress of Machaerus on the eastern side of the Dead Sea. He also writes that Herodias' daughter from her first marriage was named Salome.] Then Herod
[Antipas]' birthday came.
Herodias' daughter
[Salome] danced before them
(in the middle in front of the entire party at the feast) and fascinated
(pleased, enchanted) Herod
For Herod had arrested John, bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip. Herod had married her.
Herodias hated (held a grudge against) John the Baptist [for his public condemnation of her relationship with Herod Antipas] and wanted to kill him, but she could not,
Then [towards evening, when the guests had begun to get drunk], Herodias' daughter [Salome] came in. She danced and fascinated (pleased, enchanted) Herod and [the other male] guests [with her sensual dance], and the king said to the girl:
"Ask me now for whatever you want, and you shall have it."
But Herod the tetrarch, who had been repeatedly rebuked by John for his relationship with his brother's wife Herodias and for all the evil he had done,
