...continually apologizes, as it were, for such shortcomings by the significant notice, " In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." I am disposed to think that the apparent idolatry of Micah with his ephod and teraphim...

...generally described. These are expressly mentioned as proofs of the disorder of those days, when " there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes " (Judg. xvii. 6). They may be most fitly noticed here, as they properly precede the...

...made anephod.and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. 6 In those days hat Kedar do rrai right in his own eyes. 7 IT And there was a young man out o Beth-lehein-judah of the family of...

...but they ignored His Eoyalty. For all practical purposes the saying of the historian is correct, " There was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes ; " an expression which points at once to a widespread perversion of morality and to...

...for the slain of the daughters of my people" (Jeremiah, v, 30 ; ix, 1). All this happened, too, when there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own sight. The ark of God was in the land, at Mizpeh, in the lot of Benjamin — the very people...

...• In Judges xvii. 6 royalty is represented as progress towards something better: " In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Many later kings, indeed, abused their power, and sought to make themselves independent...

...preservation of whatever writings may already have existed. There was " in those days," as we are told, " no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes " (xvii. 6 ; xxi. 25). The bonds of society must have been too loosened to present...

...state of confusion in which they were living is painfully described in these words: "In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." And this condition of theira would prove to the Israelites (if any proof could at...

...made an ephod, and teraphim.t and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Judah, who was...

...made an ephod, and teraphim, J and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest. In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. And there was a young man out of Beth-lehem-judah, of the family of Jndah, who was...