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 days there was no king neither order, nor government. No ministry of God to tell men of their transgressions: no magistrate to punish them. Reader! learn to set a proper estimate upon those two great blessings of the Lord, a standing ministry, to instruct men in the truths of salvation: and a well ordered government to protect those ministers. Remember: rulers are not a terror to good works, but the evil. Romans 13:3.