Baal-tamar is only mentioned here. It took its name from some palm-tree that grew there; perhaps the same as the palm-tree of Deborah, between …

Put themselves in array at Baal-tamar. — This is either a detail added out of place (so that we might almost suppose that…

And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place
The main body of the army, which fled before Benjamin, when the…

The Israelites' abhorrence of the crime committed at Gibeah, and their resolution to punish the criminals, were right; but they formed their resolv…