In those days [there was] no king in Israel: every man did [that which was] right in his own eyes.
Ver. 25. In those days, &c.] See Judges 17:6 .
Every man did that which was right.] Quod sibi placebat, id solebat facere. a Had the Israelites been, as some say the Thracians were, αυτονομοι, every man a law to himself, it might have been better with them. But although they lived in God's good land, yet because not by God's good laws, nor had at this time any supreme magistrate, therefore all was out of order, and their anarchy begat a general ataxy.
a Vatab.