 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 sider
...the Israel of Judges there was no crown to seize. The Book of Judges ends with the formula, "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." The same allusion underlies Dryden's apostrophe to London in The Medall: "But still the Canaanite is in... | |
 | Alicia Ostriker - 1994 - 284 sider
...Lord. I said it was. He then commanded me To destroy Jericho. V^ Judaes, or Disasters of War In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. JUDGES 21:25 Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the... | |
 | Daniel J. Elazar - 500 sider
...no tribe should be eliminated from the federation. The story concludes with the formula: "In those days there was no king in Israel. Every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (2 1:25). What Does the Book of Judges Teach Us? While this story is presented at... | |
 | Dr. Lynn Anderson - 2010 - 238 sider
...neighbors. After three hundred years under an assortment of judges, pure chaos prevailed. "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25 KJV). Decline fed disillusionment. Leader after leader began well and... | |
 | Shubert Spero - 2000 - 424 sider
...radically, the author ruefully reporting the lack of centralized authority with the refrain, "In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes." 71 In short, by the end of his history, the author is telling us that the system... | |
 | Elizabeth Rose Wingrove - 2000 - 270 sider
...Israel, there was a certain Levite," while Judges 21:25 closes the story and the book thusly: "In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes." 1 ' These statements, slight variations on which appear twice in earlier chapters... | |
 | Thomas L. Haskell - 2000 - 446 sider
..."The collapse of comity," "Every group its own historian," "The center does not hold," and finally, "There was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his eyes." These titles are hard to reconcile with the tone of the first twelve chapters, which... | |
 | Derek N. C. Wood - 2001 - 286 sider
...have given much comfort to the revolutionaries. The reason for all that misery was that '[i]n those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes' (Judges 21:25; emphasis added). The ominous words are stated four times and conclude... | |
 | John Phillips - 2001 - 260 sider
...failure which followed, as recorded in the book of Judges. Judges: The Folly of Forsaking God In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes." Mark that expression well. It is the last sentence in the book of Judges. It gives... | |
 | Milton Ridvas Konvitz - 440 sider
...Hebrew society, provide disturbing considerations. A later writer generalizes about the period that "there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25; cf. 18:1, 19:1), an explanation which, in its context, means nothing... | |
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In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes. 
