Juízes 21:25

25 Naqueles dias não havia rei em Israel; cada um fazia o que parecia bem aos seus olhos.

Juízes 21:25 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 21:25

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 between the death of Joshua and the time of the judges:

every man did that which was right in his own eyes;
there being none to restrain him from it, or punish him for it; and this accounts for the many evil things related, as the idolatry of Micah and the Danites, the base usage of the Levite's concubine, the extreme rigour and severity with which the Israelites treated their brethren the Benjaminites, the slaughter of the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead, and the rape of the daughters of Shiloh.

Juízes 21:25 In-Context

23 Assim fizeram os filhos de Benjamim; e conforme o seu número tomaram para si mulheres, arrebatando-as dentre as que dançavam; e, retirando-se, voltaram � sua herança, reedificaram as cidades e habitaram nelas.
24 Nesse mesmo tempo os filhos de Israel partiram dali, cada um para a sua tribo e para a sua família; assim voltaram cada um para a sua herança.
25 Naqueles dias não havia rei em Israel; cada um fazia o que parecia bem aos seus olhos.
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