Judges 21:25 meaning and explanation

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

Judges 21:25, Berean Standard Bible

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This closing line is the narrator's verdict on the whole chapter, not a comment by one of the characters. It explains the chaos just described: an oath made in anger, a city slaughtered, women seized to supply wives for the surviving Benjamites.

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