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Judges 21:25 KJV
Judges · chapter 21 · verse 25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.Judges 21:25 · King James Version
Judges 21:25 in context
23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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Key words (Strong's)
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- rightyâshârstraightH3477 →
- daysyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
- kingmeleka kingH4428 →
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We have here the method that was taken to provide the 200 Benjamites that remained with wives. And, though the tribe was reduced to a small number, they were only in care to provide each man with one wife, not with more under pretence of multiplying them the faster.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 16-25