And when Judah came. — Now Judah had come; by the time the slaughter was complete.
Toward the watch tower. — The look-out of the desert. A height overlooking the wilderness of Jeruel (2 Chronicles 20:16). The word mizpeh means watch-tower in Isaiah 21:8.
They looked. — And they looked.
Behold, they were dead bodies. — Comp. 2 Kings 19:35.
None escaped. — No survivors were anywhere visible. Vulg., “Porro Juda cum venisset ad speculam quae respicit solitudinem vidit procul... nec superesse quemquam qui necem potuisset evadere.”