Encouraged themselves, Heb. strengthened themselves; partly by supporting themselves with the conscience of the justice of their cause, and the hopes of success; and partly by putting themselves in better order for defending themselves, and annoying their enemies. In the place where they put themselves in array the first day; hereby showing their freedom from that heathenish superstition, whereby they might have been apt to have rejected that as an unlucky place. Compare 1 Kings 20:23,28.
Related Commentaries of Judges 20:22
Judges 20:22
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.