Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Bible References
No king
Judges 18:1
In those days there was no king in Israel; and in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance [of land] for themselves to live in, for until then an inheritance had not been allotted to them as a possession among the tribes of Israel.
Judges 19:1
Now it happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that a certain Levite living [as an alien] in the most remote part of the hill country of Ephraim, who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah.
Judges 21:3
They said, “O Lord, God of Israel, why has this come about in Israel, that there should be today one tribe missing from Israel?”
Genesis 36:31
And these are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites:
Deuteronomy 33:5
“The Lord was King in Jeshurun (Israel),
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.
“The Lord was King in Jeshurun (Israel),
When the heads of the people were gathered,
The tribes of Israel together.
Right
Deuteronomy 12:8
“You shall not do at all what we are doing here [in the camp] today, every man doing whatever is right in his [own] eyes.
Psalm 12:4
Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord and master over us?”
Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own; who is lord and master over us?”
Proverbs 12:15
The way of the [arrogant] fool [who rejects God’s wisdom] is right in his own eyes,
But a wise and prudent man is he who listens to counsel.
The way of the [arrogant] fool [who rejects God’s wisdom] is right in his own eyes,
But a wise and prudent man is he who listens to counsel.
Proverbs 14:12
There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,
But its end is the way of death.
There is a way which seems right to a man and appears straight before him,
But its end is the way of death.
Proverbs 16:2
All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions],
But the Lord weighs and examines the motives and intents [of the heart and knows the truth].
All the ways of a man are clean and innocent in his own eyes [and he may see nothing wrong with his actions],
But the Lord weighs and examines the motives and intents [of the heart and knows the truth].
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Jeremiah 44:16
“As for the word (message) that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.