Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Don’t let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Press your attack against the city and overthrow it!’ So tell him, chazak!”
Judges 20:22 - Tree of Life Version But the people of the men of Israel rallied their strength and arrayed for battle again in the same place where they had arrayed themselves 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 to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab, ‘Don’t let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Press your attack against the city and overthrow it!’ So tell him, chazak!”
to shoot from hiding at the innocent, shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.
On that day the children of Benjamin mustered 26,000 swordsmen from the towns, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered 700 chosen men.
Meanwhile the men of Israel, apart from Benjamin, numbered 400,000 swordsmen; all men of war.
But the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and struck down 22,000 men of Israel on the field that day.
Yet Bnei-Yisrael went up and wept before Adonai until evening, then inquired of Adonai saying, “Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother?” Adonai said, “Go up against him.”
So David was in a serious bind, for the troops were calling for his stoning, for all the troops were bitter of soul, every man for his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in Adonai his God.