(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 at all do as we are doing here today—(A)every man 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 of (C)death.

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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 he who heeds counsel is wise.

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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; (B)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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The Levite’s Concubine

19 And it came to pass in those days, (A)when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote mountains of Ephraim. He took for himself a concubine from (B)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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The Danites Adopt Micah’s Idolatry

18 In (A)those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days (B)the tribe of the Danites was seeking an inheritance for itself to dwell in; for until that day their inheritance among the tribes of Israel had not 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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All the ways of a man are pure in his own (A)eyes,
But the Lord weighs the spirits.

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

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Seek God in Early Life

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
(A)Walk in the [a]ways of your heart,
And [b]in the sight of your eyes;
But know that for all these
(B)God will bring you into judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:9 Impulses
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:9 As you see to be best

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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Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord 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 But we will certainly do (B)whatever has gone out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the (C)queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of [a]food, were well-off, and saw no trouble.

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  1. Jeremiah 44:17 Lit. bread

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 said, “O Lord God of Israel, why has this come to pass in Israel, that today there should be one tribe missing 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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And He was (A)King in (B)Jeshurun,
When the leaders of the people were gathered,
All the tribes of Israel together.

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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.