How did Salome the step daughter of Herod die?

Answer 1

Salome decided to walk along a frozen lake when suddenly she lost her footing, fell into the cracked ice, her head above the surface of the lake but her body moving like she did when she danced for Herod. A minute later, by freak of nature, some sharp ice fragments moved towards her and pierced her throat, killing her instantly.

Answer 2

The Bible doesn't tell us the name of Herodias' daughter by her first husband Philip, but the ancient Jewish historian Josephus tells us that her name was Salome. After dancing for Herod's birthday party and demanding that John the Baptizer be beheaded, she is not mentioned again in the Bible. Josephus, however, tells us that she married her uncle Phillip, who was tetrarch of Trachonitis. (This Phillip was a half-brother of Herod Antipas, different from the Phillip who was also a half-brother of Herod but who had originally married Herodias and who lived as a disinhereted prince in Rome.) There is a tradition passed on by Nicephorus and repeated by Dr. Whitby prior to the 18th Century, and mentioned in Matthew Henry's commentary on the Gospel of Matthew published in 1706, that this Salome died when when she was trying to travel across a frozen lake and fell through the ice and was decapitated by the sharp edges through which she fell.