Judges 17:6

In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

World English Bible Classic

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

5The man Micah had a house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

7There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

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Cross References

Genesis 36:31These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.

Judges 19:1In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

Judges 21:25In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.

Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the motives.

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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