Hosea 6:8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is stained with blood. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Gilead is a city of evildoers; it is tracked with bloody [footprints]. American Standard Version (1901) Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity; it is stained with blood. Common English Bible Gilead is a city of wicked people, tracked with blood. Catholic Public Domain Version Gilead is a city that manufactures idols; it has been tripped up by family relations. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Galaad is a city of workers of idols, supplanted with blood. |
When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. And Joab was girded with his apparel of war that he had put on, and thereon was a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside into the midst of the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there in the belly, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: In the covert places doth he murder the innocent: His eyes are privily set against the helpless.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To be occupied in deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, And save me from the bloodthirsty men.
Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Is Gilead iniquity? they are altogether vanity; in Gilgal they sacrifice bullocks: yea, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the field.
And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
There is nought but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, ye house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king, for unto you pertain the judgement; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way.
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with her suburbs;