14 Bible Verses about No King

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.

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:

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

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

There was then no king in Edom; the king was but a deputy.

Thus the children of Israel shall sit a great while without king and prince, without offering and alter, without priest and revelation.

Then shall they say, "We have no king. For why? We have not feared the LORD. And what shall then the king do to us?"

Tell the king and the rulers, "Humble yourselves, set you down low, for the crown of your glory shall fall from your head."

Then he said, "I saw all Israel scattered upon the hills, as sheep that have no shepherds. And the LORD said, 'Those have no master; let them return, every man to his house in peace.'"

Then shall he swear and say, "I cannot help you. Moreover, there is neither meat nor clothing in my house, make me no ruler of the people."

Why then art thou now so heavy? Is there no king in thee? Are thy counselors away that thou art so pained, as a woman in her travail?

The grasshoppers have not a guide, yet go they forth together by heaps.

Thou makest men as the fish in the sea, and like as the creeping beasts, that have no guide.

And thus sayeth the LORD God: I will destroy the Idols, and bring the images of Noph to an end. There shall no more be a prince of Egypt, and a fearfulness will I send into the Egyptians' land.