Judges 17:6

In those days, there was no king in Israel. Instead, each one did what seemed right to himself.

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In The King James Version

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

In Context

5And he also separated in it a little shrine for the god. And he made an ephod and theraphim, that is, a priestly garment and idols. And he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

7Also, there was another young man, from Bethlehem of Judah, one of his relatives. And he himself was a Levite, and he was living there.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:31Now before the sons of Israel had a king, the kings who ruled in the land of Edom were these:

Deuteronomy 33:5The king shall have great righteousness, at the gathering of the princes of the people with the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1There was a certain man, a Levite, living beside mount Ephraim, who took a wife from Bethlehem of Judah.

Proverbs 12:15The way of the foolish is right in his own eyes. But whoever is wise listens to counsels.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes; the Lord is the one who weighs spirits.

Matthew Henry on Judges 17:2-7

Micah and His Gods. ( b. c. 1406.) 1 And there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah. 2 And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord , my son. 3 And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the Lord from my hand for my… Read the whole commentary →

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