Judges 17:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Judges 17:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.
Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Proverbs 12:15
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Here we have, I. Micah and his mother quarrelling. 1. The son robs the mother. The old woman had hoarded, with long scraping and saving, a great sum of money, 1100 pieces of silver. It is likely she intended, when she died, to leave it to her son: in the mean time it did her good to look upon it, and to count it over. The young man had a family of children grown up, for he had one of age to be a p…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. every man did that which was right in his own eyes--From want of a settled government, there was no one to call him to account. No punishment followed any crime.