Judges 17:6 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.

English Standard Version
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

New American Standard Bible
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

King James Bible
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

International Standard Version
Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

American Standard Version
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Douay-Rheims Bible
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.

Darby Bible Translation
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Young's Literal Translation
in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:8
You shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatever is right in his own eyes.

Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day all their inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1
And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah.

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

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Jud 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under the Judges, here is showed how unhappy they were when there was no Judge. The love of money made Micah so undutiful to his mother as to rob her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him. Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses. This woman's silver was her god, before it was made into a graven or a molten image. Micah and his mother agreed to turn their money into a god, and set up idol worship in their family. See the cause of this corruption. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and then they soon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. every man did that which was right in his own eyes—From want of a settled government, there was no one to call him to account. No punishment followed any crime.