Besides, what was right in their own eyes?
Judges is a book about APATHY AND APOSTASY! About a time when the chosen people of God turn away from Him and did what was right in their own eyes. From the time the people of Israel knew and followed God until the apostasy, or falling away of their faith, took a mere couple of generations!
Also Know, when there was no king in Israel everyone did what was right in his own eyes? 'IN THOSE DAYS THERE WAS NO KING IN ISRAEL; EVERY MAN DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES. ' leadership was expected.
Also to know, what seems right in the eyes of man?
Proverbs 14:12: There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Do what is right in the sight of God?
"The ways of the Lord are right; the righteous walk in them" (Hosea 14:9). We are not to do what is right in our own eyes, but what is right in the sight of God.