6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.
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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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…
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