25In those days there was no king in Israel: 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.
Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-25)We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one wife, not with more under pretence of multiplying them the faster. They may not bestow their daughters upon them, but to save their oath, and yet marry some of their daughters to them, they put them i…
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