"In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."
Commentary
Gill's Exposition
In those days there was no king in Israel,.... No supreme magistrate, Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all related in the five
last chapters of this book were done between the death of Joshua and the time of the judges: every man did that which was right in his own eyes; there being none to restrain him from it, or punish him for it; and this accounts for the many evil things related, as the idolatry of Micah and the Danites, the base usage of the Levite's concubine, the extreme rigour and severity with which the Israelites treated their brethren the Benjaminites, the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead, and the rape of the daughters of Shiloh. Next: Ruth Introduction Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Judges: Judge... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Judges: Judge... »
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Commentary
Gill's Exposition
In those days there was no king in Israel,.... No supreme magistrate, Joshua being dead, and as yet no judge in Israel had risen up; for all related in the five
last chapters of this book were done between the death of Joshua and the time of the judges: every man did that which was right in his own eyes; there being none to restrain him from it, or punish him for it; and this accounts for the many evil things related, as the idolatry of Micah and the Danites, the base usage of the Levite's concubine, the extreme rigour and severity with which the Israelites treated their brethren the Benjaminites, the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead, and the rape of the daughters of Shiloh. Next: Ruth Introduction Sacred Texts | Bible « Previous: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Judges: Judge... Index Next: John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible: Judges: Judge... »