Matthew Poole and continuators on Judges 3:13

13 And he gathered unto him the Children of Ammon, and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of Palm-trees .

i. e. Iericho, as may be gathered from Deut. 34. 3. Iudg. 1. 16. 2 Chron. 28. 15. Not the City which was Demolished, but the Territory belonging to it. Here he fixed his Camp, partly for the admirable Fertility of that Soil; and partly, because of its nearness to the passage over Iordan, which was most commodious both for the conjunction of his own Forces which lay on both sides of Iordan; and to prevent the Conjunction of the Israelites in Canaan with their Brethren beyond Iordan; and to secure his Retreat into his own Country, which therefore the Israelites prevented, v. 28.