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Carmel; not Mount Carmel, of which Jos_12:22, but another mountain or town in the tribe of Judah, of which see Jos_15:55. A place, i.e. a monument or trophy of his victory, as the same Hebrew word is used, 2Sa_18:18. And this may be here noted by way of censure, that he set it not to God’s honour, but to himself, i.e. to his own praise; which he minded in the first place, and afterwards went to Gilgal, as it here follows, to offer sacrifice to God.