Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
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Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
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And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
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And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
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Passages linked to Numbers 32:41 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 3:14 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.)
- Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts. They had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
- Joshua 13:30 Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities.
- 1 Kings 4:13 Ben Geber, in Ramoth Gilead (the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, belonged to him; and the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars, belonged to him);
- 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 That is, the villages of Jair.
That is, the villages of Jair.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Jair is called here
Jair is called here
the son of Manasseh, partly because he was so by his mother, 1Ch 2:21,22; and partly because he joined himself with the Manassites in this expedition, and settled himself among them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages…
And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof,.... Who this Nobah was is not certain, very probably a descendant of Manasseh; it is said (u) he was among those that were born in Egypt, and died after the death of Moses, and was buried beyond Jordan, as it is said, also did Machir and Jair, so that there were none left but Caleb, and Joshua:
and called it Nobah, after his name; but it seems that in later times its ancient name was restored to it; for Jerom (w), says there was a village in Arabia, called Cannatha, which is supposed to be this place; though he also tells us (x), that eight miles from Heshbon; to the south, is shown a desert place called Naba. Pliny (y) places Cannatha in the Decapolis.
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(u) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 9. p. 27. (w) Ut supra. (De loc. Heb. fol. 89. M.) (x) De loc. Heb. fol. 93. H. (y) Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 18.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 41. Havoth-jair.] That is, the villages or habitations…
Verse 41. Havoth-jair.] That is, the villages or habitations of Jair; and thus they should have been translated. As these two tribes and a half were the first, says Ainsworth, who had their inheritance assigned to them in the promised land, so they were the first of all Israel that were carried captive out of their own land, because of their sins. "For they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after other gods. And God delivered them into the hands of Pul and Tiglath-Pilneser, kings of Assyria, and they brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan, unto this day." See 1Ch 5:25-26.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror…
The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror of Argob Deu 3:14 - gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luk 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighboring city of Capernaum.
Havoth-jair - That is, the villages, or rather groups of tents, or “kraals,” of Jair. Originally they were twenty-three in number 1Ch 2:22 : in the days of the youuger Jair, to whom they probably descended by inheritance, they either had increased to thirty, or were reckoned at that round number Jdg 10:4.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Jair was born of Segub, the son of Esron,…
Jair was born of Segub, the son of Esron, by a daughter of Machir, 1 Paralipomenon i. 21. He did not remain in the tribe of Juda, but dwelt in that of his mother, (Calmet) or perhaps he married a descendant of Machir, and obtained these villages. (Selden, Suc. c. xviii.) --- Havoth, means "a circle of cabins or shepherds’ huts," in Arabic. (Bochart)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Havoth-jair--that is, "tent-villages." Jair, who captured them, was a…
Havoth-jair--that is, "tent-villages." Jair, who captured them, was a descendant of Manasseh on his mother's side (Ch1 1:21-22).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 41. Havoth-jair — Towns of Jair. Jos_13:30, note.
41. Havoth-jair — Towns of Jair. Jos_13:30, note.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 41. Jair the son of Manasseh] This Manassite clan…
41. Jair the son of Manasseh] This Manassite clan that took Gilead and gave its name to the district Havvôth-Jair (‘the towns of Jair,’ marg. or better ‘the tent villages of J .’) is mentioned in Jdg_10:3-4 as Jair the Gileadite, and is represented as one of the judges of Israel. The territory which the clan occupied is identified in Deu_3:14 with Argob in Bashan (cf. Jos_13:30). But Deu_3:5 is not in agreement with that, because Argob is described as a region of fenced cities with ‘high walls, gates, and bars’; while the clan dwelt in tent villages. And in 1Ki_4:13 the two districts seem to be expressly distinguished.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (41) And Jair the son of Manasseh . .…
(41) And Jair the son of Manasseh . . . —Jair was the son of Segub, the son of Hezron, who married the daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh (1Ch_2:21-22). Jair was, therefore, the great-grandson of Manasseh, and was one of those Israelites who were reckoned as belonging to their maternal tribe.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Jair the son of Manasseh. This hero of Manasseh…
Jair the son of Manasseh. This hero of Manasseh is mentioned here for the first time; in Deu_3:14 his conquests are somewhat more fully described. His genealogy, which is instructive and suggestive, is given here.
It will be seen that Segub, the father of Jair, was a Machirite in the female line only. His father Hezron, according to 1Ch_2:21, married the daughter of Manasseh in his old age, when his elder sons were probably already fathers of families. It may probably be conjectured also that Manasseh, who must have inherited exceptional wealth, (cf. Gen_48:17) and had but one grandson, left a large portion to his granddaughter, the young wife of Hezron. It was therefore very natural that Segub should have attached himself to the fortunes of his mother"s tribe. Is it not also very probable that Machir had other daughters, (cf. Gen_1:23) who also inherited large portions from their grandfather, and whose husbands were willing enough to enter into a family which had apparently brighter prospects than any others? If so, it would account at once for the existence of a large family of Machirites not descended from Gilead, and not on the most friendly terms with the rest of the tribe. It is quite possible that many of the more adventurous spirits amongst the tribe of Judah joined themselves to a family whose reputation and exploits they might naturally claim as their own (see on Jos_19:34). The small towns thereof, or, "their villages." Septuagint, taleiv autwn , i.e. the hamlets of the Amorites who dwelt in Argob, (Deu_3:14) the modern district of el Lejja, on the north-western waters of the Yermuk or Hieromax. And called them Havoth-jair. ryaiy tOWj. Septuagint, taleiv Iair , and so the Targums. The word chavvoth only occurs in this connection, and is supposed by some to be the plural of hWj, "life." There does not, however, seem to be anything except the very doubtful analogy of certain German names in favour of the rendering "Jair"s lives." It is more likely the corruption of some more ancient name. There is some discrepancy in subsequent references to the Chavvoth-jair. According to 1Ch_2:22, Jair had twenty-three towns in Gilead; from Jud_1:10:4 it appears that the sons of the later Jair had thirty cities "in the land of Gilead" which went under the name of Chavvoth-jair; while in Jos_13:30 "all the Chavvoth-jair which are in Bashan" are reckoned at sixty. The plausible, though not wholly satisfactory, explanation is, that the conquests of Nobah came to be subsequently included in those of his more famous contemporary, and the vague name of Chavvoth-jair extended to all the towns in that part of Gilead, and of Bashan too (see notes on the passages cited).
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