And when the children of Israel went out the next day to fight against the children of Benjamin,

So the people of Israel came near against the Benjaminites the second day.

And the sons of Israel draw near unto the sons of Benjamin on the second day,

So the children of Israel went forward against the children of Benjamin the second day.

And when the sons of Israel had continued to do battle against the sons of Benjamin on the next day,

And the children of Israel came near,.... To the city of Gibeah, drew nigh to battle:
against the children of Benjamin the second day; for the two battles were fought two days successively.

But on the second day also the Benjaminites brought 18,000 of them to the ground. "The second day" is not the day following the first engagement, as if the battles had been fought upon two successive days, but the second day of actual fighting, which took place some days after the first, for the inquiry was made at Bethel as to the will of God between the two engagements.