What was Israel's condition at the end of the book of Judges?
At the end of Judges, Israel had no king, and every man did what was right in his own eyes. The nation was in almost anarchy and spiritual famine, destitute because there was nothing to guide them. That condition fits the last verse, Judges 21:25.
Les explains that the book of Judges records Israel's repeated rise and fall—going down into sin and rebellion, crying out, then God raising up a judge to deliver them, followed by another decline. At the end, Judges 21:25 describes the result: no king in Israel, every man doing right in his own eyes. Les calls this almost anarchy and a spiritual famine, with Israel destitute because there was nothing to guide them, a condition he says fits our own day.
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.