6In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.


In Context

3 When he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, "I solemnly consecrate my silver to the LORD for my son to make a carved image and a cast idol. I will give it back to you."

4 So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into the image and the idol. And they were put in Micah's house.

5 Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some idols and installed one of his sons as his priest.

6 In those days Israel had no king; everyone did as he saw fit.

7 A young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah, who had been living within the clan of Judah,

8 left that town in search of some other place to stay. On his way he came to Micah's house in the hill country of Ephraim.

Judges 17:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every one did that which seemed right to himself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

17:6in those days there is no king in Israel, each that which is right in his own eyes doth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

17:6In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.