In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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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…
Barnes' Notes
The repetition of this characteristic phrase (compare Jdg 17:6; Jdg 18:1; Jdg 19:1) is probably intended to impress upon us the idea that these disorders arose from the want of a sufficient authority…
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…
Cambridge Bible
there was no king in Israel Cf. Jdg 17:6 n.A suitable transition to the history of Samuel which relates the beginning of the monarchy.
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