Jair (the Gileadite)

• Numbers 32:41 says, “Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.” The note in parentheses at Deuteronomy 3:14 says, “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.” Joshua 13:30 names in the border of the half-tribe of Manasseh “all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities”.
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  • DEU 3:12–17, engwebp

    ¹²This land we took in possession at that time: from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with its cities, I gave to the Reubenites and to the Gadites;

    ¹³and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh—all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.

    ¹⁴Jair 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.)

    ¹⁵I gave Gilead to Machir.

    ¹⁶To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and its border, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

    ¹⁷the Arabah also, and the Jordan and its border, from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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  • JOS 13:29–31, engwebp

    ²⁹Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

    ³⁰Their 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.

    ³¹Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.

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  • NUM 32:39–42, engwebp

    ³⁹The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

    ⁴⁰Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

    ⁴¹Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.

    ⁴²Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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• Judges 10:3–4 says, “After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years. 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.” The text does not name this Jair’s father.
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  • JDG 10:3–5, engwebp

    ³After him Jair, the Gileadite, arose. He judged Israel twenty-two years.

    ⁴He 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.

    ⁵Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:21 says that the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom Hezron took as wife when he was sixty years old, bore him Segub, and 2:22–23 go on, “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.” Neither edition writes the name Havvoth Jair in these verses.
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  • 1CH 2:21–24, engwebp

    ²¹Afterward 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.

    ²²Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

    ²³Geshur 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.

    ²⁴After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah, Hezron’s wife, bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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Numbers 32:41 and Deuteronomy 3:14 say that Jair the son of Manasseh gave the name Havvoth Jair, and Deuteronomy 3:14 says he “called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth Jair”; Joshua 13:30 counts all the villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, as sixty cities. Judges 10:3–4 says that Jair the Gileadite had thirty sons and that they had thirty cities in the land of Gilead, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day. 1 Chronicles 2:21–23 says that Jair, the son of Segub whom Machir’s daughter bore to Hezron, had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead, and that Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities; neither edition writes the name Havvoth Jair in these verses. This collection keeps the three Jairs apart (person-jair-manasseh, person-jair-gilead, person-jair-segub), records the accounts on the one entry of the name Havvoth Jair, giving it “the towns of Jair” of 1 Chronicles 2:23 as well, and does not decide how the three accounts fit.