Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

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

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.

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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 house of gods, and he made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 6 In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 7 And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he sojourned there.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:8

Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;

Judges 18:1

In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for unto that day their inheritance had not fallen unto them among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1

And it came to pass in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Beth-lehem-judah.

Judges 21:25

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

Genesis 36:31

And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5

And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

Judges 21:3

And they said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, why is this come to pass in Israel, that there should be to-day one tribe lacking in Israel?

Psalm 12:4

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Proverbs 12:15

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; But he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seemeth right unto a man; But the end thereof are the ways of death.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Jeremiah 44:16-17

As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah, we will not hearken unto thee.

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