I greatly need help with this question about the Old Testament?

I'm thinking that under the Judges "everyone did what was right in his own eyes" and people like Samson could execute others without a written law, and be considered possessed of the Holy Spirit. Later, a more conventional king would rule from a capital, with a central and fixed temple. Possibly the nation had a "home" city and father-figure rather than a looser coalition of tribes, elders, and prophets.