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.
". . . by reducing the size of the army, God was showing them that numbers alone did not guarantee victory. They needed to trust God to accomplish the impossible, as he did for Gideon’s three hundred (cf. Judges 7:7)." [Note: Wolf, p. 498.] 