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 at other times for their sins he suffered them to be without them, and such a time this was; and therefore they ran into that idolatry from which the judges usually kept them; as appears by that solemn and oft-repeated declaration in this book, that after the death of such or such a judge, the people forsook the Lord, and turned to idols. His own eyes That is, not what pleased God, but what best suited his own fancy.
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Judges 17:6
6 In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.