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Judges 21:25

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23 The Benjamites did as instructed and carried away the number of women they needed from the dancers they caught. They went back to their own inheritance, rebuilt their cities, and settled in them.

24 And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
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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: 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; everyone did right in his own eyes.
ÅB
I de dager var det ingen konge i Israel; hver mann gjorde hva rett var i hans øyne.
[^1]: nemlig mot Jabes (v. 10-14); de eldste taler disse første ord i benjaminittenes navn.
[^2]: DMR 21, 1. 7.
OTB
I de dager hadde Israel ingen konge; hver mann gjorde det som var rett i hans egne øyne.
B1930
I de dager var det ingen konge i Israel; hver mann gjorde hvad rett var i hans øine.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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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.

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  • Proverbs 3:5

    Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;

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  • Judges 17:6

    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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  • Ecclesiastes 11:9

    Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

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  • Proverbs 14:12

    There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

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  • Judges 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.

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  • Judges 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.

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  • Micah 2:1–2

    Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.

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