Judges 17:6
in those days there is no king in Israel, each does that which is right in his own eyes.
Literal Standard Version
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
Cross References
Genesis 36:31And these [are] the kings who have reigned in the land of Edom before the reigning of a king over the sons of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:5And He is King in Yeshurun, || In the heads of the people gathering together, || The tribes of Israel!
Judges 19:1And it comes to pass in those days, when there is no king in Israel, that there is a man, a Levite, a sojourner in the sides of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he takes a wife for himself, a concubine, out of Beth-Lehem-Judah;
Judges 21:25In those days there is no king in Israel; each does that which is right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool [is] right in his own eyes, || And whoever is listening to counsel [is] wise.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, || And YHWH is pondering 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 →