14 Bible Verses about No King

In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites [was] seeking territory for itself to live in, because until that day it had not been allotted territory among the tribes of Israel.

In those days there was no king in Israel; there was a man, a Levite, who dwelled as a foreigner in the remote areas of the hill country of Ephraim. And he took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.

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

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

There was not a king in Edom; a governor [served] as king.

The children of Israel will remain for many days without a king and prince, without sacrifice and stone pillar, ephod and teraphim.

For now they will say, "We have no king; indeed, we did not fear Yahweh, and what can a king do for us?"

"Say to the king and to the queen mother, '{Take a lower seat}, for {your beautiful crown} has come down from your head.'

So he said, "I saw all of Israel scattering to the mountains, like the sheep without a shepherd. Yahweh also said, 'There are no masters for these, let them return in peace, each to his house.'"

He will lift up [his voice] on that day, saying, "I will not be a healer; in my house there is no bread and there is no cloak. You shall not make me [the] leader of [the] people!"

So then, why do you shout a loud shout? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished that pangs like a woman in labor have seized you?

there is no king for the locust, yet it marches in rank;

You make humankind like fish of the sea, like crawling creatures that have no ruler among them.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "And I will destroy [the] idols, and I will put an end to [the] worthless idols from Memphis. And there will {no longer be} a prince from the land of Egypt, and I will put fear in the land of Egypt.