And he sware unto her (κα ωμοσεν αυτη). The girl was of marriageable age though called κορασιον (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, the same oath made to Esther by Ahasuerus.