Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Jo´ab, 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.
Judges 20:22 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the people, the men of Israel, took courage and strengthened themselves and again set their battle line in the same place where they formed it the first day. American Standard Version (1901) And 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. Common English Bible The Israelite troops regrouped and lined up in battle formation again in the same place they had lined up the first day. Catholic Public Domain Version Again the sons of Israel, trusting in both strength and number, set their troops in order, in the same place where they had contended before. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Again Israel, trusting in their strength and their number, set their army in array in the same place, where they had fought before. |
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Jo´ab, 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.
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, besides the inhabitants of Gib´e-ah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
And the children of Benjamin came forth out of Gib´e-ah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty and two thousand men.
(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.)
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.