| Bible - 1829 - 1012 pages
...tribe and to his family, and they went out frone theiice every man to his inheritance. 25 In those days there was no king in Israel : every man did that which was right in his own eyes. f The Book of RUTH. CHAP. I. of Beth-lehem-judah went to sojourn in the country of... | |
| Great Britain - 1829 - 516 pages
...descriptive of the whole of this period — a space of nearly five hundred years. ; — " In those days there was no king in Israel : every man did that which was right in his own, eyes." Of this period, the author of the work says well and truly: — " Thus ended the... | |
| Religion - 1849 - 1188 pages
...partly to be attributed to the absence of any civil authority ; for, says the historian, " in those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did that which was right in his own eyes." — (Judges 21 : 25.) But had not the public mind been dead to the commonest sentiment... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 pages
...Mal. iii. 16, 17. ' Mal. iii. 18. CCLXXVII. THE BENJAMITES' WICKEDNESS. Judg. xxi. 25. In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. SUCH is the depravity of human nature, that man is always prone to depart from God... | |
| Thomas Watson - Sermons, English - 1833 - 794 pages
...nnrl nlpntv Sn/*h vent those state convulsions which otherwise might ensue : Judges xvii. 6, When " Wx 9Xm +xa G Df < { b A c V- _ h X in his own eyes." A wonder, Prov. xxx. 27. (2). God hath promoted kings, that they may promote justice.... | |
| John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833 - 600 pages
...indirectly bring in the lawless democracy which a sacred historian describes, where ho says, " In those days there was no king in Israel : every man did that which was right in his own eyes." But the doctor adds, " For thejr [the people's] sakes government was instituted ;... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1839 - 310 pages
...again informs us, as if to account for these singular and sinful transactions, that " in those days there was no king in Israel : every man did that which was right in his own eyes." CHAPTER VI. The king of Mesopotamia subdues the Israelites. Othniel delivers them.... | |
| Memoirs - 1835 - 460 pages
...Judges, the restraints of some such influential ruler as Samson appear to have been necessary. When there was no king in Israel, every man did that which was right in his own eyes, and that was, in most instances, uniformly wrong. — Another of the heroes of antiquity,... | |
| A. C. L. D'Arblay (M.A., F.C.P.S.) - 1836 - 566 pages
...finger-post, to warn the nations of the earth against falling into a similar error. " In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes."* Hence the wretchedness of the land. Civil government then proceeds from God himself.... | |
| Bible - 1837 - 850 pages
...tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance. 25 w In those days there was no king in Israel : * every man did that which was right in his own eyçs. 1 Unit . xii. 8 ; chap. xvii. 6. asylum for WOMEN, which would have afforded you... | |
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