Judges 17:6

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 the man Micah had a house of God, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

7And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem in Judah — in the family of Judah — who was a Levite, and he sojourned there.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:31And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

Judges 19:1And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem in Judah.

Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

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

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the 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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