Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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 separated also therein a little temple for the god, and made an ephod, and theraphim, that is to say, a priestly garment, and idols: and he filled the hand of one of his sons, and he became his priest.

7There was also another young man of Bethlehem Juda, of the kindred thereof: and he was a Levite, and dwelt there.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:31And the kings that ruled in the land of Edom, before the children of Israel had a king were these:

Deuteronomy 33:5He shall be king with the most right, the princes of the people being assembled with the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1There was a certain Levite, who dwelt on the side of mount Ephraim, who took a wife of Bethlehem Juda:

Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsels.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are open to his eyes: the Lord is the weigher of 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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