‏ Mark 6:23

 And he sware unto her ( κα ωμοσεν αυτη ). The girl was of marriageable age though called  κορασιον (cf. Es 2:9). Salome was afterward married to Philip the Tetrarch. The swaggering oath to the half of the kingdom reminds one of Es 5:3f., the same oath made to Esther by Ahasuerus.

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