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Wives for the Benjamites

Judges 21:25

In 10 translations

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.
LSV
In those days there is no king in Israel; each does that which is right in his own eyes.
YLT
In those days there is no king in Israel; each doth that which is right in his own eyes.
DBY
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.
GNV
In those dayes there was no King in Israel, but euery man did that which was good in his eyes.
JPS
In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
LXXE
And in those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own sight.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
בַּיָּמִ֣ים הָהֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין מֶ֖לֶךְ בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל אִ֛ישׁ הַיָּשָׁ֥ר בְּעֵינָ֖יו יַעֲשֶֽׂה׃
LXX-Br
Ἐν δὲ ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις οὐκ ἦν βασιλεὺς ἐν Ἰσραήλ· ἀνὴρ τὸ εὐθὲς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐποίει.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Deuteronomy 12:8You are not to do as we are doing here today, where everyone does what seems right in his own eyes.
  • Judges 17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  • Proverbs 3:5Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding;
  • Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, 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…
  • Proverbs 14:12There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
  • Judges 19:1Now 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.
  • Judges 18:1In 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.
  • Micah 2:1–2Woe 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. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
  • Psalms 12:4They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”
  • Judges 18:7So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

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  • 21:24b in some Bibles

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