Judges 17:6
In those days, there was no king in Israel,—every man did, that which was right in his own eyes.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 reigned in the land of Edom,—before there reigned a king of the sons of Israel:
Deuteronomy 33:5Thus became he in, Jeshurun, a king,—When the heads of the people gathered them-selves together, As one man, the tribes of Israel. [Reuben] —
Judges 19:1And it came to pass in those days, when, king, there was none in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.
Judges 21:25In those days, there was no king in Israel,—every man did, that which was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12:15The way of the foolish, is right in his own eyes, but, he that hearkeneth to counsel, is wise.
Proverbs 16:2All the ways of a man, [may be] pure in his own eyes, but, he that testeth spirits, is Yahweh.
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 →