Judges 20:5

Verse 5. Kill me. He expressed an abominable crime by another less horrible. Salien.—But he does not say that he brought out his wife. He might conclude, that if he had been exposed to their fury, he would have experienced a similar fate. Bible.—So determined was he to resist to the last extremity. The outrage would have been more hateful to him than death. Calmet.—We may reasonably conclude that his wife had the same sentiments, and that she died a martyr to her conjugal fidelity, resisting even unto death, and thus making some atonement for her past misconduct.