And he sware unto her (kai wmosen auth). The girl was of marriageable age though called korasion (cf. Esther 2:9). Salome was afterward married to Philip the Tetrarch. The swaggering oath to the half of the kingdom reminds one of Esther 5:3 f., the same oath made to Esther by Ahasuerus.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Mark 6:23:
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