In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
“You shall not do according to all that we are doing here today, everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes,
The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
In those days there was no king in Israel. And in those days 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.
All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail, our lips are with us; who is master over us?”
“As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, 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.
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?”
Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.
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