Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For in those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did what thought him best.

New American Standard Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

International Standard Version

Back in those days, Israel didn't yet have a king, so each person did whatever seemed right in his own opinion.

A Conservative Version

In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Bible in Basic English

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

Darby Translation

In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

Julia Smith Translation

In those days not a king in Israel, as man will do the right in his eyes.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

In those days there was no king in Israel, and each one did what was right in his own eyes.

Modern King James verseion

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

NET Bible

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

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

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
In those days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

מלך 
melek 
Usage: 2521

in Israel
ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

but every man
אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Micah's Idolatry

5 And the man Micah had a chapel of gods, and made an ephod and images, and filled the hand of one of his sons which became his priest. 6 For in those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did what thought him best. 7 And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, and out of the kindreds of Judah: which young man was a Levite and sojourned there.


Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:8

Ye shall do after nothing that we do here this day - every man what seemeth him good in his own eyes -

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of Dan sought them an inheritance to dwell in, for unto that time there fell none inheritance unto them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1

It chanced in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite dwelling on the side of mount Ephraim, took to wife a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah:

Judges 21:25

In those days there was no king in Israel: but every man did what seemed him right.

Genesis 36:31

These are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king among the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5

And he was in the fullness of the king, and held the rulers of the people together, with the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21:3

and said, "O LORD God of Israel, why is this chanced in Israel, that there should be this day one tribe lacking in Israel?"

Psalm 12:4

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

Proverbs 12:15

Look: what a fool taketh in hand, he thinketh it well done; but he that is wise, will be counseled.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which some men think to be right; but the end thereof leadeth unto death.

Proverbs 16:2

A man thinketh all his ways to be clean; but it is the LORD that fashioneth the minds.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.

Jeremiah 44:16-17

"As for the words that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will in no wise hear them:

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