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In those days Israel had no king,[a] and everyone did what in his own opinion he thought to be right.

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  1. Judges 17:6 Israel had no king: this lament, repeated in Jdg 18:1; 19:1; 21:25, indicates that the Book of Judges was written during the time of the monarchy and reiterates that lawlessness and cultic behavior were a continuing problem while there was no king among the Israelites.

25 In those days Israel had no king, and everyone did what in his own opinion he thought to be right.

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