Judges Chapter 10 verse 3 Holy Bible
And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
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And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.
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After him arose Ja'ir the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
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And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
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And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
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After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
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And there riseth after him Jair the Gileadite, and he judgeth Israel twenty and two years,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - Jair. We read of Jair the son of Segub, the son of Machir's daughter by Hezron, in 1 Chronicles 2:21-23, and are there told that he had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead (called Havoth-jair), which were included in the territory of the sons of Machir. The same information is given in Numbers 32:40-42, and in Deuteronomy 3:14, 15, in both which passages Jair is styled the son of Manasseh, and is stated to have called the cities after his own name, Havoth-jair. In the present verse we are also told that Jair the judge was a Gileadite, and that he had thirty sons who had thirty cities in Gilead called Havoth-jair. The question arises, Can these two be the same person? If they are, Deuteronomy 3:14 must be a later parenthetical insertion, as it has very much the appearance of being. The notice in Numbers 32:41 must also refer to later times than those of Moses, and we must understand the statement in 1 Chronicles 2:22, that "Segub begat Jair," as meaning that he was his lineal ancestor, just as in Matthew 1:8 we read that "Joram begat Ozias," though three generations intervened between them. If, on the other hand, they are not the same, we must suppose that Jair in our text was a descendant of the other Jair, and may compare the double explanation of the name Havoth-jair with the double explanation of Beer-sheba given Genesis 21:31; Genesis 26:31-33; the threefold explanation of the name Isaac, Genesis 17:17; Genesis 18:12; Genesis 21:6; and the double explanation of the proverb, "Is Saul among the prophets?" given in 1 Samuel 10:11, 12; 1 Samuel 19:23, 24. The Hebrew name Jair is preserved in the New Testament under the Greek form of Jairus (Mark 5:22).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) Jair, a Gileadite.--In Numbers 32:41 we are told of a Jair, the son of Manasseh, who "took the small towns" of Gilead, and called them Havoth-jair. This earlier Jair, with Nobah, plays a splendid part in Jewish legend, which is only alluded to in Scripture (see Deuteronomy 3:14). In what relation the Jair of these verses stood to him we cannot, in the uncertain data of the chronology, decide. The Jair of Numbers 32:41 was descended from Judah on the father's side, and on the mother's was a great-grandson of Manasseh.
