Free Bible Study: The History of Israel Under the Judges
Today’s Lesson: Second Encounter
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against the children of Benjamin the second day.God instructed them to “go up” and battle against the Benjaminites; He allowed the battle between the Israelites and their brother Benjamin, because he was a gangrened member of their body and must be cut off. Upon this, they encouraged themselves, perhaps more in their own strength than in the divine commission, and made a second attempt upon the forces of the rebels, in the same place where the former battle was fought (v. 22[1]), with the hope of retrieving their credit upon the same spot of ground where they had lost it.
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