“After a long time spent in this state of indecision and while I was still busily searching for the cause I have mentioned, there came to my mind the book of Judges, which tells how each man did what was right in his own eyes and gives the reason for this in these words: "In those days there was no king in Israel." Wit…”
Basil of Caesarea, 4th c. — PREFACE ON THE JUDGMENT OF GOD
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25In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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23And the children of Benjamin did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them.
24And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.