Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Majority Standard Bible
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
7And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
Cross References
Genesis 36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
Deuteronomy 33:5So the LORD became King in Jeshurun when the leaders of the people gathered, when the tribes of Israel came together.
Judges 19:1Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Proverbs 16:2All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
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 →