Judges 17:6

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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 house of Micah was to him the house of God, and he made an ephod and teraphim, and he consecrated one of his sons, and he became to him a priest.

7And there was a young man in Bethlehem of the tribe of Judah, and he was a Levite, and he was sojourning there.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:31And these are the kings which reigned in Edom, before a king reigned in Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5And he shall be prince with the beloved one, 1 When the princes of the people are gathered together 1 With the tribes of Israel. 1

Judges 19:1And there was a Levite sojourning in the sides of Mount Ephraim, and he took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem Judah.

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

Proverbs 12:15The ways of fools are right in their own eyes; 1 But a wise man hearkens to counsels. 1

Proverbs 16:2All the works of the humble man are manifest with God; 1 But the ungodly shall perish in an evil day. 1

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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