Judges 21:25

At that time, the Israeli people did not have a king. Everyone did what they themselves thought was right.

Translation for Translators

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

24The other Israelis went to their homes in the areas where their tribes and clans lived, the areas that God had allotted to them.

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Cross References

Judges 17:6At that time, the Israeli people did not have a king. So Micah and everyone else did whatever they considered to be the right thing to do.

Judges 18:7The next day the five men left. When they came to Laish city, they saw that the people there lived safely, like the people in Sidon city did. The people there thought that they were safe/protected from any enemies, and they had plenty of good fertile land. They lived very far from the people of Sidon, so the people of Sidon would not be able to help defend/protect them. They had no other ◄allies/groups nearby that would help them in battles►.

Psalms 12:4They say, “By telling lies we will get what we want; we control what we say [MTY], so no one can tell us what we should not do!”

Proverbs 14:12There are some kinds of behavior [MET] that some people falsely think are right, but ◄walking on those roads/continually doing those things► causes those people to die.

Isaiah 53:6All of us have gone away from God like [SIM] sheep who have strayed away from their shepherd. We have turned away from doing the things that God wants in order to do the things that we wanted [MET]. We deserve to be punished, but Yahweh will punish him instead of punishing us for all of our sins.

Micah 2:1Terrible things will happen to you who lie awake at night, planning to do wicked things. You get up at dawn, and you do those things, as soon as you are able to do them.

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 →

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