Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.

King James Version

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

Holman Bible

Gilead is a city of evildoers,
tracked with bloody footprints.

International Standard Version

Gilead is a lawless town; it is polluted by bloodshed.

A Conservative Version

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

American Standard Version

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Amplified


Gilead is a city of wrongdoers;
It is tracked with bloody footprints.

Bible in Basic English

Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

Darby Translation

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is tracked with blood.

Julia Smith Translation

Gilead a city working vanity, defrauding from blood.

King James 2000

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is defiled with blood.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Gilead [is] a city of evil, a cunning [city] because of blood.

Modern King James verseion

Gilead is a city of trouble-makers, slippery with blood marks.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Gilead is a city of wicked doers, of malicious people and bloodshedders.

NET Bible

Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints!

New Heart English Bible

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

The Emphasized Bible

Gilead, is a city of workers of iniquity, - tracked with blood.

Webster

Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

World English Bible

Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood.

Youngs Literal Translation

Gilead is a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּלעד 
Gil`ad 
Usage: 114

is a city
קריה 
Qiryah 
Usage: 31

פּעל 
Pa`al 
Usage: 57

and is polluted
עקב 
`aqob 
Usage: 3

References

American

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Call To Yahweh

7 But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.
8 Gilead is a city of wrongdoers,
Tracked with bloody footprints.
9 And as raiders wait for a man,
So a band of priests murder on the way to Shechem;
Surely they have committed crime.

Cross References

Hosea 12:11

Is there iniquity in Gilead?
Surely they are worthless.
In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls,
Yes, their altars are like the stone heaps
Beside the furrows of the field.

Joshua 21:38

From the tribe of Gad, they gave Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

2 Samuel 3:27

So when Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the middle of the gate to speak with him privately, and there he struck him in the belly so that he died on account of the blood of Asahel his brother.

2 Samuel 20:8

When they were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was dressed in his military attire, and over it was a belt with a sword in its sheath fastened at his waist; and as he went forward, it fell out.

1 Kings 2:5

“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt about his waist, and on his sandals on his feet.

Psalm 10:8

He sits in the lurking places of the villages;
In the hiding places he kills the innocent;
His eyes stealthily watch for the unfortunate.

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from those who do iniquity
And save me from men of bloodshed.

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs will not become clothing,
Nor will they cover themselves with their works;
Their works are works of iniquity,
And an act of violence is in their hands.

Jeremiah 11:19

But I was like a gentle lamb led to the slaughter;
And I did not know that they had devised plots against me, saying,
“Let us destroy the tree with its fruit,
And let us cut him off from the land of the living,
That his name be remembered no more.”

Hosea 4:2

There is swearing, deception, murder, stealing and adultery.
They employ violence, so that bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, O priests!
Give heed, O house of Israel!
Listen, O house of the king!
For the judgment applies to you,
For you have been a snare at Mizpah
And a net spread out on Tabor.

Micah 7:2

The godly person has perished from the land,
And there is no upright person among men.
All of them lie in wait for bloodshed;
Each of them hunts the other with a net.

Matthew 26:15-16

and said, “What are you willing to give me to betray Him to you?” And they weighed out thirty pieces of silver to him.

Acts 23:12-15

When it was day, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul.

Acts 25:3

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

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