8 “YOU must not do according to all that we are doing here today, each one whatever is right in his own eyes,+

18 “You should set judges+ and officers+ for yourself inside all your gates that Jehovah your God is giving you by your tribes, and they must judge the people with righteous judgment.

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.+

17 And Samuel himself saw Saul, and Jehovah, for his part, answered him: “Here is the man of whom I said to you, ‘This is the one that will keep my people within bounds.’”+

5 Trust in Jehovah with all your heart+ and do not lean upon your own understanding.+