Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Judges 17:6
In those days ... - This phrase, indicating distinctly that the writer lived after the establishment of the kingly government in Israel, is unique to the author of these last five chapters.
In those days ... - This phrase, indicating distinctly that the writer lived after the establishment of the kingly government in Israel, is unique to the author of these last five chapters.
Verse Judges 17:6. THERE WAS _NO KING IN ISRAEL_] The word מלך _melech_, which generally means _king_, is sometimes taken for a supreme _governor, judge, magistrate_, or _ruler_ of any kind; (see Gen...
III. THE APPENDIX: ISRAEL'S INTERNAL CORRUPTION 1. Micah's and Dan's Idolatry and Its Punishment CHAPTER 17 The Images Made and the Hired Priest _ 1. The stolen money restored and the images (Judge...
MICAH'S GRAVEN IMAGE. The dread of a curse, uttered by an indignant mother against the unknown thief of her money, made the culprit, her own son, confess his guilt. At a certain stage of religious dev...
JUDGES 17-18. This section is the first of two supplements. It explains the origin of the famous shrine at Dan, and the _naî veté_ of its moral and religious ideas proves how ancient it is. In not a f...
NO KING. First occurrence of four, See Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25. Two conform to the structure here; and two in chs. Judges 19:1, and...
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL— That is to say, no supreme governor; and, consequently, a total anarchy prevailed, (see 2 Chronicles 15:3.) which words are inserted, not only as a reason wh...
DOUBLE APPENDIX Judges 17:1 to Judges 21:25 The Idolatry of Dan Judges 17:1 to Judges 18:31 Micah's Images...
_IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL, BUT EVERY MAN DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES._ Every man did that which was right in his own eyes. From the lack of a settled government, there w...
THE STORY OF MICAH This story, which is continued in the following c, is undoubtedly a very old one. In striking contrast to many other narrative portions of the Old Testament, there is in the body of...
LIFE WITHOUT LAW JUDGES _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 17 V1 There was a man called Micah from the hilly country where Ephraim’s *tribe lived. V2 He said to his mother, ‘Someone stole the 1100 pieces of...
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING. — This shows that these narratives were written, or more probably edited, in the days of the monarchy. (See Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1; Judges 21:25.) DID THAT WHICH WAS...
בַּ † יָּמִ֣ים הָ הֵ֔ם אֵ֥ין מֶ֖לֶךְ...
THE STOLEN GODS Judges 17:1, Judges 18:1 THE portion of the Book of Judges which begins with the seventeenth chapter and extends to the close is not in immediate connection with that which has gone b...
Here begins the final section of the Book of Judges which is of the nature of an appendix. The events here recorded must have taken place closely following the death of Joshua. They give us a picture...
In those days [there was] no (e) king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes. (e) For where there is no Magistrate fearing God, there can be no true religion or order....
Himself. Serarius thinks this took place before Heli was appointed to succeed Samson. But the opinion of Salien (Menochius) is more probable. For, though he places this history in the 22d year of Otho...
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. The sacred historian very properly accounts for the whole of this sad defection in Israel; in those d...
My object being no more than a sketch, as most of you know, I desire to say but a few words on such of the Chapter s as bear a similar character to that which has been already pointed out in the early...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 17 THROUGH 21. The Chapter s that follow (17-21) are not comprised in the historical order of this book. They lift the veil to disclose some incidents of the...
IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL,.... That is, no supreme magistrate, judge, or ruler, Joshua being dead and Caleb also, and the elders contemporary with them; for what the Samaritan Chronicl...
In those days [there was] no king in Israel, [but] every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes. Ver. 6. _In those days there was no king in Israel,_] _i.e., _ No ordinary supreme magistrate:...
_There was no king in Israel_ No judge to govern and control them; the word _king_ being used largely for a supreme magistrate. God raised up judges to rule and deliver the people when he saw fit; and...
1 Of the money that Micah first stole, then restored, his mother maketh Images, 5 and hee ornaments for them. 6 He hireth a Leuite to be his Priest. 1 AND there was a man of mount Ephraim, whose na...
In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes. This note is added by the author in order to give one reason for such conditions as here described, n...
THE MAKING OF THE IMAGE...
BOLD IDOLATRY IN ISRAEL (vv. 1-13) Samson was the last judge in Israel. The last five Chapter s of Judges -- 17 to 21 -- deal with conditions during the time of the Judges, so do not necessarily tak...
1-6 What is related in this, and the rest of the chapters to the end of this book, was done soon after the death of Joshua: see chap. Judges 20:28. That it might appear how happy the nation was under...
NO KING, i.e. no judge to govern and control them. The word _king_ being here used largely for a supreme magistrate; as GENESIS 36:31 DEUTERONOMY 33:5. God raised up judges to rule and deliver the peo...
Judges 17:6 days H3117 king H4428 Israel H3478 everyone H376 did H6213 (H8799) right H3477 eyes H5869 no
‘ In those days there was no king in Israel, every man did what was right in his own eyes.' Here is now the reason for their questionable behaviour. It was because in Israel every man did what was rig...
CONTENTS: Micah's worship in self will. CHARACTERS: Micah, his mother, a Levite. CONCLUSION: The love of money makes much mischief; destroys the duty and comfort of every relation and frequently lea...
Judges 17:1. _A man of mount Ephraim, whose name was Micah._ This was soon after the death of Joshua, says Josephus, and before the civil war with Benjamin. Judges 17:2. _About which thou cursedst._...
_Micah._ MICAH’S MOTHER In the second verse of this chapter Micah makes a clean confession of a great wrong which he had done to his mother. “It seems,” says Matthew Henry, “that this old woman, with...
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:1 The Depths of Israel’s Unfaithfulness. Whereas chs. Judges 2:1 describe external threats to Israel, chs....
JUDGES—NOTE ON JUDGES 17:6 NO KING IN ISRAEL. Compare Judges 18:1; Judges 19:1;...
IDOLATRY IN ITS INCIPIENT STAGE—BY IMAGE-WORSHIP (Judges 17:1.) _HOMILETICS_ I. IDOLATRY BEGINS WITH THOSE WHO ARE NOT UPRIGHT IN MORAL CONDUCT. Judges 17:1. Micah himself is first heard of as stea...
EXPOSITION JUDGES 17:1 We here light upon quite a different kind of history from that which has preceded. We no longer have to do with judges and their mighty deeds in delivering Israel from his oppr...
At this point the book of Judges, as far as its history, ends. What remains in the book of Judges is not now in chronological order. This is an appendix to the book of Judges as we get into chapter se...
Deuteronomy 12:8; Deuteronomy 33:5; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Genesis 36:31;...
No king — No judge to govern and control them. The word king being used largely for a supreme magistrate. God raised up judges to rule and deliver the people, when he saw fit; and at other times for t...