Judges 21:25
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: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In Context
Cross References
Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:7Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt in security, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; for there was none in the land, possessing authority, that might put them to shame in any thing, and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no dealings with any man.
Psalms 12:4(12-5) Who have said: 'Our tongue will we make mighty; our lips are with us: who is lord over us?'
Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Isaiah 53:6All we like sheep did go astray, we turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath made to light on him the iniquity of us all.
Micah 2:1Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they execute it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Matthew Henry on Judges 21:17-25
The Virgins of Shiloh Surprised. ( b. c. 1409.) 16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin? 17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. 18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin. 19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the… Read the whole commentary →