Judges 20:22

22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.

Judges 20:22 in Other Translations

KJV
22 And the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves, and set their battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
ESV
22 But the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and again formed the battle line in the same place where they had formed it on the first day.
NLT
22 But the Israelites encouraged each other and took their positions again at the same place they had fought the previous day.
MSG
22 The army took heart. The men of Israel took up the positions they had deployed on the first day.
CSB
22 But the Israelite army rallied and again took their battle positions in the same place where they positioned themselves 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 fight the Benjamites and took up battle positions against them at Gibeah.
21 The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day.
22 But the Israelites encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day.
23 The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, “Shall we go up again to fight against the Benjamites, our fellow Israelites?” The LORD answered, “Go up against them.”
24 Then the Israelites drew near to Benjamin the second day.
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