Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day.
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Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day. —
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 3:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 32:41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
- Joshua 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel didn’t drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath live within Israel to this day.
- 2 Samuel 3:3 and his second, Chileab, of Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite; and the third, Absalom the son of Maacah the daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;
- 2 Samuel 10:6 When the children of Ammon saw that they had become odious to David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Beth Rehob, and the Syrians of Zobah, twenty thousand footmen, and the king of Maacah with one thousand men, and the men of Tob twelve thousand men.
- 2 Samuel 13:37 But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. David mourned for his son every day.
- 1 Chronicles 2:21-23 Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took as wife when he was sixty years old; and she bore him Segub. Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead. Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Meaning, when he wrote this history.
Meaning, when he wrote this history.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Geshuri, or Geshurites, a people towards the north of…
Geshuri, or Geshurites, a people towards the north of Canaan, 2Sa 3:3; 15:8. See also Jos 13:13. Maachathi; of whom see 2Sa 3:3; 10:6. Unto this day: this must be put among those other passages which were not written by Moses, but added by those holy men who digested the books of Moses into this order, and inserted some very few passages to accommodate things to their own time and people.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country…
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob,.... Or Trachonitis; the small towns belonging to Gilead, as in Num 32:41.
unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; these were little kingdoms in Syria, on which the country of Argob bordered, and had kings over them in the time of David, and came not into the possession of the Israelites; see Jos 13:13.
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and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day; see Num 32:41.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Unto this day - This must be put among…
Unto this day - This must be put among those passages which were not written by Moses, but added by those holy men, who digested the books of Moses into this order, and inserted some few passages to accommodate things to their own time and people.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. Bashan-havoth-jair] Bashan of the cities of Jair;…
Verse 14. Bashan-havoth-jair] Bashan of the cities of Jair; see Nu 32:41.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Deu 3:14. Unto this day — This must be…
Deu 3:14. Unto this day — This must be put among those passages which were not written by Moses, but added by those holy men who digested the books of Moses into this order, and inserted some few passages to accommodate things to their own time and people.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain These Geshurites held territory adjoining, if not included within,…
These Geshurites held territory adjoining, if not included within, Bashan. They are not to be confounded with those mentioned in Jos 13:2, who were neighbors of the Philistines 1Sa 17:8.
The exact position of Maachah like that of Geshur cannot be ascertained; but it was no doubt among the fastnesses which lay between Bashan and the kingdom of Damascus, and on the skirts of Mount Hermon.
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Unto this day - This expression, like our “until now,” does not, as used in the Bible, necessarily imply that the time spoken of as elapsed is long. It may here denote the duration to the time then present of that which had been already some months accomplished.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Jair. Some have supposed that this was one of…
Jair. Some have supposed that this was one of the judges of Israel, but without foundation. He was a son or descendant of Manasses, Numbers xxxii. 41., and Judges x. 4. --- And Machati. These were the most southern towns of this half tribe. (Calmet) --- Day. If Esdras added these words, he did it not against the law, but to explain it. (Worthington)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country…
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob--The original inhabitants of the province north of Bashan, comprising sixty cities (Deu 3:4), not having been extirpated along with Og, this people were afterwards brought into subjection by the energy of Jair. This chief, of the tribe of Manasseh, in accordance with the pastoral habits of his people, called these newly acquired towns by a name which signifies "Jair's Bedouin Villages of Tents."
unto this day--This remark must evidently have been introduced by Ezra, or some of the pious men who arranged and collected the books of Moses.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 14. Jair the son of Manasseh — Meaning, descendant…
14. Jair the son of Manasseh — Meaning, descendant of Manasseh. He was of the tribe of Manasseh on his mother’s side.
Coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi — That is, the Geshurites and Maachathites. The Geshurites are often named in connexion with Bashan. David married the daughter of Talmai, king of the Geshurites. Absalom was born of this marriage. After the murder of his brother Amnon by his command, Absalom fled to Geshur, and lived three years in exile among his mother’s kindred. 2Sa_13:37. The precise location of Geshur is not decided. It was somewhere near Hermon, on the eastern side of the upper Jordan. The exact location of Maachathi is not settled. It was probably in the neighbourhood of Hermon, not far from Geshur.
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Havoth-jair — The dwellings or abodes of Jair. Havoth is from the Hebrew word which means life, as the Germans use Leben in such forms as Eisleben.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. Archaeological Note. It begins with the last clause…
14. Archaeological Note. It begins with the last clause of Deu_3:13; see above. This reference of the conquest of Argob to Ya’îr contrasts with Deu_3:4-6, which assign it to Israel under Moses, and differs from Num_32:41, which places the Ḥawwôth-Ya’îr in Gilead; cp. 1Ki_4:13, and 1Ch_2:22, and as we have seen, on Deu_3:13, Ya’îr is assigned by Jdg_10:3 ff. to the time of the Judges. The phrase unto this day also implies a date for this note later than that of Moses, which is assumed through the rest of the discourse. The opinion, therefore, is reasonable, that the note is a harmonising insertion altered from Num_32:41. Note the awkward construction. The word them in called them Ḥawwôth Ya’îr, confirmed by Sam. and LXX., has no proper antecedent (it cannot of course be explained by the preceding border), while in Num_32:41 it correctly refers to the preceding tent-villages. Note, too, the awkwardness of all Bashan as it stands. Moreover, the characteristic of Argob was not tent-villages but fenced cities (Deu_3:4).—The Geshuri and Ma‘akathi are placed by Jos_12:5; Jos_13:11 between Gile‘ad and Ḥermon to the W. of Bashan; that is the mod. Jaulan (Gaulanitis), but the Ma‘akathi spread across Jordan N.W. to Abel-beth-Ma‘akah in Naphtali, 2Sa_20:14 f., etc. These two were Aramean (Gen_22:24; 2Sa_15:8; 1Ch_19:6); Israel failed to expel them (Jos_13:3); David fought the king of Ma‘akah (2Sa_10:6, where the LXX Ἀμαλήκ is probably an error; the Geshur of 2Sa_3:3; 2Sa_13:37 f. may be another tribe of that name S. of Judah, Jos_13:2; 1Sa_27:8); 1Ch_2:33, where Geshur is said to have taken the Ḥ. Ja’ir, and Deu_19:6, are corrupt.—Ḥawwoth, cp. Ar. ḥiwa‘at “a collection of tents.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (14) Jair took . . . unto this day.—The…
(14) Jair took . . . unto this day.—The last words of this chapter seem to point to a later hand, as of Joshua, describing the completion of the conquest. The expression “unto this day” is characteristically common in Joshua, or in the editorial notes inserted throughout that book. (See Introduction to Joshua, “On the Style of the Book.”)
Geshuri and Maachathi—i.e., the Geshurite and the Maachathite, the inhabitants of Geshur and Maachah. “The Maachathites, near the Jordan springs (comp. Abel-Beth-maachah, 2Sa_20:14-15), and the Geshurites, rather farther east” (Conder, Bible Handbook, p. 254). Talmai, king of Geshur, was the grandfather of Absalom (2Sa_3:3), who took refuge with him after he killed Ammon (2Sa_13:37). “Argob, Trachonitis, or El-Lejja, has been an asylum for all malefactors and refugees ever since” (Giant Cities of Bashan, p. 92).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Jair, a descendant of Manasseh by the mother"s side…
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh by the mother"s side (his father was of the tribe of Judah, (1Ch_2:22) obtained the Argob region untoi.e., inclusive of. (see Jos_13:13) the territory of the Geshuri and Maachathi. These were small Syrian tribes located to the east of Hermon. As Geshur signifies a bridge, it has been conjectured that the Geshurites were located near some well-known bridge across the Jordan, of which, perhaps, they were the keepers, and from this took their name. Maachah is called Aram (Syria) Maachah in 1Ch_19:6. According to the "Ono-masticon," it was "a city of the Amorites, by the Jordan, near Mount Hermon" (s.v. Macaqi) It had in later times a king, who allied himself with the Ammonites against David. (1Ch_19:7) These tribes were subdued, but not destroyed, by the Israelites; and at a later period seem to have regained their independence, and to have formed one kingdom. (comp. 2Sa_3:3 2Sa_10:6 2Sa_13:37 2Sa_15:8; 1Ch_3:2) And called them after his own name, Bashan-havoth-jair. The word havoth (properly chavvoth , tWOj) is the plural of a word meaning life, and Char-voth-Jair probably signifies Jair"s livings, not Jair"s villages, for these were apparently fortified cities. (vers. 4, 5; 1Ki_4:13) These were recaptured by the Geshurites, aided by the Arameans; (1Ch_2:23, "And Geshur and Aram took Chavvoth-Jair from them," etc.) at what time is unknown. From Num_32:42, it appears that Nobah, also a family descended from Machir, took certain towns, viz. "Kenath and her daughters" in this district; these, with the twenty-three Hay-voth-Jair, made up the sixty towns which "belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead". (1Ch_2:23) Nobah was probably in some way subordinate to Jair, and so in this rhetorical discourse, where it is not the purpose of the author to enter on minute details, the whole of these cities are included under the name Havvoth-Jair. Unto this day. "This does not necessarily imply a long time; and Moses himself may have used this expression, though only shortly after the event, in order to give prominence to the capture of the fortified cities of the giant" king Og, by the Manassites for the encouragement of the Israelites" (Herzheimer).
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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This continues the background information about the land the people of Israel captured. (See: Deuteronomy 3:13)
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Jair
This is the name of a man. (See: How to Translate Names)
the Geshurites and the Maakathites
These are people groups who lived west of Bashan. (See: How to Translate Names)
Havvoth Jair
Translators may make a footnote that says: "The name 'Havvoth Jair' means 'tent villages of Jair' or 'realm of Jair.'"
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Manasseh
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Bashan
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 3:14 Jair was a descendant of Manasseh from Makir…
3:14 Jair was a descendant of Manasseh from Makir and Gilead (1 Chr 2:22). • Geshurites and Maacathites, kingdoms of Bashan, lay along the west side of the Golan Heights, east of the Sea of Galilee. • The Towns of Jair was the name given Argob (see Deut 3:4) after Jair brought it under Israelite control.
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