(A)In those days there was no king in Israel. (B)Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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In those days Israel had no king;(A) everyone did as they saw fit.(B)

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“You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, (A)everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,

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You are not to do as we do here today, everyone doing as they see fit,(A)

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12 (A)There is a way that seems right to a man,
    but (B)its end is the way to death.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 14:12 Hebrew ways of death

12 There is a way that appears to be right,(A)
    but in the end it leads to death.(B)

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15 (A)The way of a fool is right in his own eyes,
    but a wise man listens to advice.

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15 The way of fools seems right to them,(A)
    but the wise listen to advice.(B)

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25 (A)In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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25 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as they saw fit.(A)

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A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of (B)the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from (C)Bethlehem in Judah.

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A Levite and His Concubine

19 In those days Israel had no king.

Now a Levite who lived in a remote area in the hill country of Ephraim(A) took a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.(B)

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Danites Take the Levite and the Idol

18 (A)In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days (B)the tribe of the people of Dan was seeking for itself an inheritance to dwell in, for until then no inheritance among the tribes of Israel had fallen to them.

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The Danites Settle in Laish

18 In those days Israel had no king.(A)

And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a place of their own where they might settle, because they had not yet come into an inheritance among the tribes of Israel.(B)

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(A)All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes,
    but the Lord (B)weighs the spirit.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 16:2 Or spirits

All a person’s ways seem pure to them,(A)
    but motives are weighed(B) by the Lord.(C)

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(A)Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. (B)Walk in the ways of your heart and (C)the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things (D)God will bring you into judgment.

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You who are young, be happy while you are young,
    and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth.
Follow the ways of your heart
    and whatever your eyes see,
but know that for all these things
    God will bring you into judgment.(A)

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those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,
    our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

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those who say,
    “By our tongues we will prevail;(A)
    our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?”

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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, (A)we will not listen to you. 17 (B)But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to (C)the queen of heaven (D)and pour out drink offerings to her, (E)as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster.

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16 “We will not listen(A) to the message you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord!(B) 17 We will certainly do everything we said we would:(C) We will burn incense(D) to the Queen of Heaven(E) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials(F) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.(G) At that time we had plenty of food(H) and were well off and suffered no harm.(I)

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And they said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”

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Lord, God of Israel,” they cried, “why has this happened to Israel? Why should one tribe be missing(A) from Israel today?”

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Thus the Lord[a] (A)became king in (B)Jeshurun,
    when the heads of the people were gathered,
    all the tribes of Israel together.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:5 Hebrew Thus he

He was king(A) over Jeshurun[a](B)
    when the leaders of the people assembled,
    along with the tribes of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 33:5 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel; also in verse 26.