Judges 17:6
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6 In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.(A)
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Deuteronomy 12:8
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8 “You shall not act as we are acting here today, all of us according to our own desires,
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Proverbs 14:12
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Footnotes
- 14.12 Heb ways of death
Proverbs 12:15
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15 Fools think their own way is right,
but the wise listen to advice.(A)
Judges 21:25
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25 In those days there was no king in Israel; all the people did what was right in their own eyes.(A)
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Judges 19:1
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The Levite’s Concubine
19 In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite residing in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.(A)
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Judges 18:1
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The Migration of Dan
18 In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking for itself a territory to live in, for until then no territory among the tribes of Israel had been allotted to them.(A)
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Proverbs 16:2
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2 All one’s ways may be pure in one’s own eyes,
but the Lord weighs the spirit.(A)
Ecclesiastes 11:9
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9 Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.(A)
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Psalm 12:4
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4 those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail;
our lips are our own—who is our master?”
Jeremiah 44:16-17
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16 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we are not going to listen to you.(A) 17 Instead, we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out libations to her, just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials, used to do in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. We used to have plenty of food and prospered and saw no misfortune.(B)
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Judges 21:3
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3 They said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, why has it come to pass that today there should be one tribe lacking in Israel?”
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Deuteronomy 33:5
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5 There arose a king in Jeshurun
when the leaders of the people assembled,
the united tribes of Israel.
Genesis 36:31
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31 These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the Israelites.(A)
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