8Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
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In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-32)There is not any one particular precept (as I remember) in all the law of Moses so largely pressed and inculcated as this, by which they are all tied to bring their sacrifices to that one altar which was set up in the court of the tabernacle, and there to perform all the rituals of their religion; for, as to moral services, then, no doubt, as now, men might pray every where, as they did in their s…
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