Dwelt in the land of Tob. — A Syrian district on the north-east of Peræa (2 Samuel 10:6). It is referred to in 1Ma. 5:13; 2Ma. 12:17. The name means “good,” but lends no sanction to the idle allegories which have been based upon it.
Vain men. — Judges 9:4.
Went out with him. — Jephthah simply became a sort of Syrian freebooter. His half-heathen origin, no doubt, influenced his character unfavourably, as it had done that of Abimelech.