snow. The reference, however, of the psalm is probably to Joshua 11 and
- The scattering of the kings and their followers is fitly likened unto the
snow-flakes rapidly falling on the dark Salmon. It is the modern Jebel
Suleiman.
- SALMONE a promontory on the east of Crete, under which Paul sailed
on his voyage to Rome (Acts 27:7); the modern Cape Sidero. - SALOME 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 (Matthew 20:20, 21; comp. 19:28). She witnessed the crucifixion
(Mark 15:40), and was present with the other women at the sepulchre
(Matthew 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.”