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Judges 21:25
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In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever seemed right to him.
In those days there was no king in Yisra'el: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; each one did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.
In those days [when the judges governed] there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In those dayes there was no King in Israel, but euery man did yt which was good in his eyes.
to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, might, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
In those days Israel wasn't ruled by a king, and everyone did what they thought was right.
At that time there was no king in Isra'el; a man simply did whatever he thought was right.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days the Israelites did not have a king, so everyone did whatever they thought was right.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which seemed right in his own eyes.
There was no king in Israel at that time. Everyone did whatever they pleased.
In those days there was no king in Israel. Each man did that which was right in his own eyes.
At yt time was there no kynge in Israel, and euery man dyd ye thinge yt was right in his awne eies.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
In those dayes there was no king in Israel: but euery man dyd that whiche seemed right in his owne eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those dayes there was no King in Israel: euery man did that which was right in his owne eyes.
And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own sight.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In tho dayes was no kyng in Israel, but ech man dide this, that semyde ryytful to hym silf.
In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.
There was no king in Israel in those days. Each man did what he thought was right.
In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.
In those days, there was no king in Israel, - every man did, that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days [fn] there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
At that time there was no king in Israel. People did whatever they felt like doing.
In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
no: Judges 17:6, Judges 18:1, Judges 19:1
right: Judges 18:7, Deuteronomy 12:8, Psalms 12:4, Proverbs 3:5, Proverbs 14:12, Ecclesiastes 11:9, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2
Reciprocal: Hosea 9:9 - Gibeah
Cross-References
so Abram's herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen began to argue. The Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at this time.
Later, when all the water was gone from the bag, Hagar put her son under a bush.
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.
Then Abimelech came with Phicol, the commander of his army, and said to Abraham, "God is with you in everything you do.
But they said, "We cannot do that until all the flocks are gathered. Then we will roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep."
Acsah answered him, "Do me a special favor. Since you have given me land in southern Canaan, also give me springs of water." So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.
A wise person will learn more from a warning than a fool will learn from a hundred lashings.
If you have an argument with your neighbor, don't tell other people what was said.
It is better to correct someone openly than to have love and not show it.
"If your fellow believer sins against you, go and tell him in private what he did wrong. If he listens to you, you have helped that person to be your brother or sister again.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In those days there was no king in Israel,.... No supreme magistrate, Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all related in the five last chapters of this book were done between the death of Joshua and the time of the judges:
every man did that which was right in his own eyes; there being none to restrain him from it, or punish him for it; and this accounts for the many evil things related, as the idolatry of Micah and the Danites, the base usage of the Levite's concubine, the extreme rigour and severity with which the Israelites treated their brethren the Benjaminites, the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead, and the rape of the daughters of Shiloh.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The repetition of this characteristic phrase (compare Judges 17:6; Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1) is probably intended to impress upon us the idea that these disorders arose from the want of a sufficient authority to suppress them. The preservation of such a story, of which the Israelites must have been ashamed, is a striking evidence of the divine superintendence and direction as regards the Holy Scriptures.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Judges 21:25. In those days there was no king in Israel — Let no one suppose that the sacred writer, by relating the atrocities in this and the preceding chapters, justifies the actions themselves; by no means. Indeed, they cannot be justified; and the writer by relating them gives the strongest proof of the authenticity of the whole, by such an impartial relation of facts that were highly to be discredit of his country.
I HAVE already referred to the rape of the Sabine virgins. The story is told by Livy, Hist. lib. i., cap. 9, the substance of which is as follows: Romulus having opened an asylum at his new-built city of Rome for all kinds of persons, the number of men who flocked to his standard was soon very considerable; but as they had few women, or, as Livy says, penuria mulierum, a dearth of women, he sent to all the neighbouring states to invite them to make inter-marriages with his people. Not one of the tribes around him received the proposal; and some of them insulted his ambassador, and said, Ecquod feminis quoque asylum aperuissent? Id enim demum compar connubium fore? "Why have you not also opened an asylum for WOMEN, which would have afforded you suitable matches?" This exasperated Romulus, but he concealed his resentment, and, having published that he intended a great feast to Neptune Equester, invited all the neighbouring tribes to come to it: they did so, and were received by the Romans with the greatest cordiality and friendship. The Sabines, with their wives and children, came in great numbers, and each Roman citizen entertained a stranger. When the games began, and each was intent on the spectacle before them, at a signal given, the young Romans rushed in among the Sabine women, and each carried off one, whom however they used in the kindest manner, marrying them according to their own rites with due solemnity, and admitting them to all the rights and privileges of the new commonwealth. The number carried off on this occasion amounted to near seven hundred; but this act of violence produced disastrous wars between the Romans and the Sabines, which were at last happily terminated by the mediation of the very women whose rape had been the cause of their commencement. The story may be seen at large in Livy, Plutarch, and others.
Thus ends the book of Judges; a work which, while it introduces the history of Samuel and that of the kings of Judah and Israel, forms in some sort a supplement to the book of Joshua, and furnishes the only account we have of those times of anarchy and confusion, which extended nearly from the times of the elders who survived Joshua, to the establishment of the Jewish monarchy under Saul, David, and their successors. For other uses of this book, see the preface.
MASORETIC NOTES ON THE BOOK OF JUDGES
The number of verses in this book is six hundred and eighteen.
Its Masoretic chapters are fourteen.
And its middle verse is Judges 10:8: And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel, &c.
Corrected for a new edition, December 1, 1827. - A. C.
