²⁵ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did what seemed right to him.

¹ Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was living in the inmost parts of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he got for himself a servant-wife from Beth-lehem-judah.

¹ In those days there was no king in Israel, and in those days the Danites were looking for a heritage for themselves, to be their living-place; for up to that time no distribution of land had been made to them among the tribes of Israel.

⁶ In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.

⁸ You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:

¹ A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

² They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

⁹ Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

¹² There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.

⁵ Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

⁴ They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?

⁷ Then the five men went on their way and came to Laish and saw the people who were there, living without thought of danger, like the Zidonians, quiet and safe; for they had everything on earth for their needs, and they were far from the Zidonians and had no business with Aram.