Judges 17:6
4 So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
5 Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
7 And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
8 This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
- KJV
- In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- WEB
- In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
- ASV
- In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- DARBY
- In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
- BLB
- In those days [there was] no king in Israel; each man did the right in his own eyes.
- ÅB
- I de dager var det ingen konge i Israel; hver mann gjorde hva rett var i hans øyne.
- OTB
- På den tiden var det ingen konge i Israel, og alle gjorde som de selv fant for godt.
- B1930
- I de dager var det ingen konge i Israel; hver mann gjorde hvad rett var i hans øine.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 12:8
You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
Read in contextProverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to counsel.
Read in contextProverbs 14:12
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Read in contextJudges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Read in contextJudges 19:1
Now 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.
Read in contextJudges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel, and the tribe of the Danites was looking for territory to occupy. For up to that time they had not come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Read in contextProverbs 16:2
All a man’s ways are pure in his own eyes, but his motives are weighed out by the LORD.
Read in contextPsalms 12:4
They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
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