When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a belt with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
Hosea 6:8 - King James 2000 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is defiled with blood. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a belt with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
And when Abner had returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and struck him there under the fifth rib, so that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and what he did to the two captains of the armies 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 belt that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
He sits in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places does he murder the innocent: his eyes are secretly set against the poor.
Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practice wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their delicacies.
Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from 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 lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not 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 may be no more remembered.
Is there iniquity in Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the fields.
And Jacob fled into the country of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break all restraint, and bloodshed touches bloodshed.
Hear you this, O priests; and hearken, you house of Israel; and give you ear, O house of the king; for judgment is for you, because you have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.
The godly man has 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.
And desired a favor from him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him along the way.
And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,