1In 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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In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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.
And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:
And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. …
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here is, 1. The eye which these Danites had upon Laish, not the whole tribe of Dan, but one family of them, to whose lot, in the subdivision of Canaan, that city fell. Hitherto this family had sojourned with their brethren, who had taken possession of their lot, which lay between Judah and the Philistines, and had declined going to their own city, because there was no king in Israel to rule over t…
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