Judges 17:6 · KJV
“In those days {there was} no king in Israel, {but} every man did {that which was} right in his own eyes.”
— Judges 17:6
And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. {consecrated: Heb. filled the hand}
And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who {was} a Levite, and he sojourned there.
Judges 17 — Context
Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred {shekels} of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. {consecrated: Heb. filled the hand}
6In those days {there was} no king in Israel, {but} every man did {that which was} right in his own eyes.
7And there was a young man out of Bethlehemjudah of the family of Judah, who {was} a Levite, and he sojourned there.
8And the man departed out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find {a place}: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed. {as he...: Heb. in making his way}
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:8
Ye shall not do after all {the things} that we do here this day, every man whatsoever {is} right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof {are} the ways of death.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool {is} right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel {is} wise.
Judges 21:25
In those days {there was} no king in Israel: every man did {that which was} right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:1
In those days {there was} no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day {all their} inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.
Judges 19:1
And it came to pass in those days, when {there was} no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehemjudah. {a concubine: Heb. a woman a concubine, or, a wife a concubine}
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man {are} clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.
Psalms 12:4
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips {are} our own: who {is} lord over us? {are...: Heb. are with us}