Being a Jaredite king was a tenuous position. It was even more so when the secret combinations were involved. In verse 9 we find them doing what they did among the Nephites, they murder a king as he sat on his throne. Verse 9 certainly speaks of the death of Gilead, but it is unclear if somehow verse 10 refers to that event, or to the subsequent death of the high priest who killed Gilead. It is possible that the high priest mentioned in verse 9 was the one who killed him. The specifics are less important than the presence of the secret combinations, which continue to be shown as destroyers of kings, and of peoples.