22And 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.
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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.
And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
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.
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-25)We have here the defeat of the men of Israel in their first and second battle with the Benjamites. I. Before their first engagement they asked counsel of God concerning the order of their battle and were directed, and yet they were sorely beaten. They did not think it was proper to ask of God whether they should go up at all against Benjamin (the case was plain enough, the men of Gibeah must be pu…
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