23 But Gidʹe·on said to them: “I myself shall not rule over YOU, nor will my son rule over YOU.+ Jehovah is the one who will rule over YOU.”+

6 In those days there was no king in Israel.+ As for everybody, what was right in his own eyes he was accustomed to do.+

18 In those days there was no king in Israel.+ And in those days the tribe of the Danʹites+ was looking for an inheritance for itself to dwell there; because up to that day an inheritance had not fallen to them in the midst of the tribes of Israel.+

19 Now it happened in those days that there was no king in Israel.+ And it came about that a certain Levite was residing for a time in the remotest parts of the mountainous region of Eʹphra·im.+ In time he took as his wife a concubine+ from Bethʹle·hem+ in Judah.