Protestantism
English
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.1
- polluted: or, cunning for
Gilead is a citie of them that worke iniquitie, and is polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, it is covered with footprints of blood.
Gilead [is] a city of those that work iniquity [and is] polluted with blood.
Gilead is a city of evil, a cunning city because of blood.1
- The Hebrew is difficult; NRSV translates “tracked with blood”
Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity, slippery with blood marks.
Gilead is a city of trouble-makers, slippery with blood marks.
Gilead is a city of them that do iniquity; She is full of footsteps of blood.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.1
- polluted: or, cunning for.
Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.1
- polluted: or, cunning for
Catholicism
English
Gilead is a city that manufactures idols; it has been tripped up by family relations.12
- 6:8Or, ‘having been tripped up by blood.’ The meaning here is that the city fell into the error of manufacturing idols because of blood-relations, i.e. family relations. Individuals, in that time period, tended to take up whatever was the family business; the same was also true of some towns. If a town had a specialized product or service, the people of the town tended to go into that line of work (e.g. Tyrian purple, the city of Tyre specialized in making dyes).(Conte)
- 6:8Supplanted with blood: that is, undermined and brought to ruin, for shedding of blood: and, as it is signified in the following verse, for conspiring with the priests (of Bethel) like robbers, to murder in the way such as passed out of Sichem to go towards the temple of Jerusalem. Or else “upplanted with blood” signifies flowing in such manner with blood, as to suffer none to walk there without imbruing the soles of their feet in blood.(Challoner)