Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

In those days not a king in Israel, as man will do the right in his 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.

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 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.

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 to him a house of gods; and he will make an ephod and a teraphim, and he will fill the hand of one of his sons, and he will be to him for priest 6 In those days not a king in Israel, as man will do the right in his eyes. 7 And there will be a youth from the House of Bread, of Judah, from the families of Judah, and he a Levite, and he sojourned there.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:8

Ye shall not do according to all we do here this day, every man the right in his eyes.

Judges 18:1

In those days no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites seeking for himself an inheritance to dwell in; for he fell not into an inheritance for himself in the midst of the tribes of Israel till that day.

Judges 19:1

And it will be in those days, and no king in Israel; and it will be a man, a Levite, sojourning in the sides of mount Ephraim, and he will take to him a wife, a concubine, from the House of Bread, of Judah.

Judges 21:25

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

Genesis 36:31

And these the kings which reigned in the land of Edom, before a king reigned over the sons of Israel.

Deuteronomy 33:5

And he will be king in Jeshurun, in the gathering the heads of the people, he united together the tribes of Israel.

Judges 21:3

And they will say, Wherefore, Jehovah, God of Israel, was this in Israel to miss one tribe this day from Israel?

Psalm 12:4

Who said, By our tongues we shall prevail; our lips are with us: who is Lord over us?

Proverbs 12:15

The way of the foolish is right in his eyes: and the wise one heard to counsel.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way straight before man, and its latter state the ways of death.

Proverbs 16:2

All the ways of man are clean in his eyes, and Jehovah tried the spirits.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment

Jeremiah 44:16-17

The word which thou spakest to us in the name of Jehovah, we hear not to thee

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