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Bible in Basic English

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

In those days there was no king in Israel: 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 [when the judges governed] there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

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 no king in Israel: a man will do the right in his eyes.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Webster

In those days there was no king in Israel: 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 doth that which is right in his own eyes.

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

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

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Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Decision Is Made About The Tribe Of Benjamin

24 Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.


Cross References

Judges 17:6

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

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

Deuteronomy 12:8

You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

Judges 18:7

Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.

Psalm 12:4

They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 3:5

Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Micah 2:1-2

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

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