Parallel Verses

NET Bible

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

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.

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 At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me! 8 Gilead is a city full of evildoers; its streets are stained with bloody footprints! 9 The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

Cross References

Hosea 12:11

Is there idolatry in Gilead? Certainly its inhabitants will come to nothing! Do they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal? Surely their altars will be like stones heaped up on a plowed field!

Joshua 21:38

from the tribe of Gad: Ramoth in Gilead (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter), Mahanaim,

2 Samuel 3:27

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

2 Samuel 20:8

When they were near the big rock that is in Gibeon, Amasa came to them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire and had a dagger in its sheath belted to his waist. When he advanced, it fell out.

1 Kings 2:5

"You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me -- how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet.

Psalm 10:8

He waits in ambush near the villages; in hidden places he kills the innocent. His eyes look for some unfortunate victim.

Psalm 59:2

Deliver me from evildoers! Rescue me from violent men!

Isaiah 59:6

Their webs cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.

Jeremiah 11:19

Before this I had been like a docile lamb ready to be led to the slaughter. I did not know they were making plans to kill me. I did not know they were saying, "Let's destroy the tree along with its fruit! Let's remove Jeremiah from the world of the living so people will not even be reminded of him any more."

Hosea 4:2

There is only cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery. They resort to violence and bloodshed.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, you priests! Pay attention, you Israelites! Listen closely, O king! For judgment is about to overtake you! For you were like a trap to Mizpah, like a net spread out to catch Tabor.

Micah 7:2

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

Matthew 26:15-16

and said, "What will you give me to betray him into your hands?" So they set out thirty silver coins for him.

Acts 23:12-15

When morning came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they had killed Paul.

Acts 25:3

Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.

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