Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.
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- 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.
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24 Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.
25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.
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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.
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7 Now there was a young man living in Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah and a Levite, who was not a townsman of the place.
8 And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.
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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.
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2 Every way of a man seems right to himself, but the Lord is the tester of hearts.
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7 Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.
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16 And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? every man to your tents, O Israel; now see to your house, David. So all Israel went to their tents.
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14 Then the five men who had gone to make a search through the country of Laish, said to their brothers, Have you knowledge that in these houses there is an ephod and family gods and a pictured image and a metal image? So now you see what to do.
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9 And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:
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4 And all the people said they would do so, for it seemed right to them.
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5 But if a man is upright, living rightly and doing righteousness,
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8 Then all the people got up as one man and said, Not one of us will go to his tent or go back to his house:
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16 And at that time I gave orders to your judges, saying, Let all questions between your brothers come before you for hearing, and give decisions uprightly between a man and his brother or one from another nation who is with him.
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19 (But even Judah did not keep the orders of the Lord their God, but were guided by the rules which Israel had made.
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19 Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:
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12 And Micah gave the position to the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.
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7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
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12 And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.
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15 And Samuel was judge of Israel all the days of his life.