Judges 20:22

22 The Israelite troops regrouped and lined up in battle formation again in the same place they had lined up 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 They marched out to fight against the Benjaminites, lining up in battle formation against them at Gibeah.
21 But the Benjaminites marched out from Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelite men that day.
22 The Israelite troops regrouped and lined up in battle formation again in the same place they had lined up the first day.
23 So the Israelites went back up and wept before the LORD until evening. They asked the LORD, "Should we move in again to fight our relatives the Benjaminites?" And the LORD replied, "March out against them."
24 The Israelites moved in against the Benjaminites the second day.
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