Verse 6

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

Referenced Verses

  • Judg 18:1 : 1 In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.
  • Judg 19:1 : 1 Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.
  • Judg 21:25 : 25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
  • Deut 12:8 : 8 You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
  • Prov 14:12 : 12 There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.
  • Prov 16:2 : 2 All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word which you have said to us in the name of the Lord, we will not give ear to you. 17 But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
  • Deut 33:5 : 5 And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel came together.
  • Judg 21:3 : 3 And they said, O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this fate come on Israel, that today one tribe has been cut off from Israel?
  • Ps 12:4 : 4 They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
  • Prov 12:15 : 15 The way of the foolish man seems right to him? but the wise man gives ear to suggestions.
  • Gen 36:31 : 31 And these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom before there was any king over the children of Israel.