Judges 20:22

22 The Israelites took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.

Judges 20:22 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 20:22

And the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves
That though they had lost a great number of men, yet still their forces were large and greatly superior to those of Benjamin, and above all their cause was good:

and set their battle again in array
formed a line of battle again facing their enemy, inviting to another battle, and bidding defiance:

and in the place where they put themselves in array the first day;
by which it seems they kept the field of battle; though they lost so many men, they did not flee before the children of Benjamin, but stood their ground; nor were they so superstitious as to fancy the place unlucky; nor was it a bad situation they were in, to which their want of success was owing, for then they would have changed it.

Judges 20:22 In-Context

20 The Israelites went out to battle against Benjamin; and the Israelites drew up the battle line against them at Gibeah.
21 The Benjaminites came out of Gibeah, and struck down on that day twenty-two thousand of the Israelites.
22 The Israelites took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.
23 The Israelites went up and wept before the Lord until the evening; and they inquired of the Lord, "Shall we again draw near to battle against our kinsfolk the Benjaminites?" And the Lord said, "Go up against them."
24 So the Israelites advanced against the Benjaminites the second day.
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