“In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Judges 21 contains 25 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.