Judges 17:6 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

In those days Israel didn't have a king. Everyone did whatever he considered right.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man 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.

BBE:

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

DBY:

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

ERV:

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

JPS:

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

WBS:

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: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

YLT:

in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.

Judges 17:6 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 12:8 "You shall not do at all what we are doing here today, every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes;

Judges 18:1 In those days there was no king of Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for themselves to live in, for until that day an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1 Now it came about in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.

Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

17:6 In those days [there was] no {e} king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
(e) For where there is no Magistrate fearing God, there can be no true religion or order.

WES:

17:6 No king - No judge to govern and control them. The word king being used largely for a supreme magistrate. God raised up judges to rule and deliver the people, when he saw fit; and at other times for their sins he suffered them to be without them, and such a time this was; and therefore they ran into that idolatry, from which the judges usually kept them; as appears by that solemn and oft - repeated passage in this book, that after the death of such or such a judge, the people forsook the Lord, and turned to idols. His own eyes - That is, not what pleased God, but what best suited his own fancy.

MHC:

17:1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Jud 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under the Judges, here is showed how unhappy they were when there was no Judge. The love of money made Micah so undutiful to his mother as to rob her, and made her so unkind to her son, as to curse him. Outward losses drive good people to their prayers, but bad people to their curses. This woman's silver was her god, before it was made into a graven or a molten image. Micah and his mother agreed to turn their money into a god, and set up idol worship in their family. See the cause of this corruption. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and then they soon did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord.

CONC:

Seemed

Eyes Israel Right Seemed

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