Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did the right in his own eyes.

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

In those days there was no king in Israel: 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 [when the judges governed] 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 what 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 no king in Israel: a man will do the right in his eyes.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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.

Webster

In those days there was no king in Israel: 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 doth that which is right in his own eyes.

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

אישׁ 
'iysh 
Usage: 692

References

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Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

A Decision Is Made About The Tribe Of Benjamin

24 And the sons of Israel departed from there at that time, each man to his tribe and to his family. And they went out from there every man to his inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did the right in his own eyes.

Cross References

Judges 17:6

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

Judges 18:1

In those days no king was in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites looked for an inheritance for them to live in. For to that day it had not fallen to them by inheritance among the tribes of Israel.

Judges 19:1

And it happened in those days, no king being in Israel, there was a certain Levite residing on the far side of Mount Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem-judah.

Deuteronomy 12:8

You shall not do according to all that we do here today, each doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

Judges 18:7

And the five men departed and came to Laish, and saw the people in it, how they lived carelessly, as the Sidonians do, quiet and secure. And there was no judge in the land who might put them to shame in a thing. And they were far from the Sidonians, and had no business with any man.

Psalm 12:4

that has said, With our tongue we shall do much; our lips are our own; who is lord over us?

Proverbs 3:5

Trust in Jehovah with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding.

Proverbs 14:12

There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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

Micah 2:1-2

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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