Judges 20 · Verse 22

Judges 20:22

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.
Judges 20:22, King James Version

Judges 20:22 in other translations

BSBBut the Israelite army took courage and again took their battle positions in the same place where they had arrayed themselves on the first day.
WEBThe people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
ASVAnd the people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
YLTAnd the people, the men of Israel, strengthen themselves, and add to set the battle in array in the place where they arranged themselves on the first day.
DARBYAnd the people, the men of Israel, took courage, and set the battle again in array in the place where they put themselves in array the first day.
BBEBut the people, the men of Israel, taking heart again, put their forces in order and took up the same position as on the first day.
WebsterAnd 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.

What does Judges 20:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Judges 20:18-28

Jud 20:18-28. The Israelites Lose Forty Thousand. 18-28. the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God--This consultation at Shiloh was right. But they ought to have done it at the commencement of their proceedings. Instead of this, all their plans were formed, and never doubting, it would seem, that the war was just and inevitable, the only subject of their inquiry related to the precedency of the…

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Judges 20:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּתְחַזֵּ֥קvai.yit.cha.Zekand it showed itself strongH2388
הָעָ֖םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
אִ֣ישׁ'ish[the] man ofH376
יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
וַיֹּסִ֙פוּ֙vai.yo.Si.fuand they repeatedH3254
לַעֲרֹ֣ךְla.'a.Rokhto deployH6186
מִלְחָמָ֔הmil.cha.MahbattleH4421
בַּמָּק֕וֹםba.ma.Komin the placeH4725
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-whereH834
עָ֥רְכוּ'A.re.khuthey had deployedH6186
שָׁ֖םshamthereH8033
בַּיּ֥וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117
הָרִאשֽׁוֹן\׃ha.ri.Shon<the> firstH7223

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Judges 20:22

  • 2 Samuel 11:25

    Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.

  • 1 Samuel 30:6

    And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

  • Psalms 64:5

    They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?

  • Judges 20:15

    And the children of Benjamin were numbered at that time out of the cities twenty and six thousand men that drew sword, beside the inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.

  • Judges 20:17

    And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
encouraged.
15,17; 1Sa 30:6; 2Sa 11:25; Ps 64:5

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Context

  • Judges 20:21

    And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.

  • Judges 20:22

    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.

  • Judges 20:23

    (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the Lord until even, and asked counsel of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the Lord said, Go up against him.)

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Judges 20:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Mas reanimándose el pueblo, los varones de Israel tornaron á ordenar la batalla en el mismo lugar donde la habían ordenado el primer día.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et le peuple, les hommes d’Israël, se fortifièrent, et se rangèrent de nouveau en bataille dans le lieu où ils s’étaient rangés le premier jour.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und es ermannte sich das Volk, die Männer von Israel, und sie stellten sich wieder in Schlachtordnung auf an dem Orte, wo sie sich am ersten Tage aufgestellt hatten.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Rursum filii Israël et fortitudine et numero confidentes, in eodem loco in quo prius certaverant, aciem direxerunt: