Judges 20:22

22 Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:

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 And going out from thence to fight against Benjamin, began to assault the city.
21 And the children of Benjamin coming out of Gabaa slew of the children of Israel that day two and twenty thousand men.
22 Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before:
23 Yet so that they first went up and wept before the Lord until night: and consulted him and said: Shall I go out any more to fight against the children of Benjamin my brethren or not? And he answered them: Go up against them, and join battle.
24 And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,
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