Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasse went and took their + 32:41 Or, folds.villages, and called them the villages of Jair.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
In Context
40And Moses gave Galaad to Machir the son of Manasse, and he dwelt there.
42And Nabau went and took Caath and her villages, and called them Naboth after his name.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:14And Jair the son of Manasse took all the country round about Argob as far as the borders of Gargasi and Machathi: he called them by his name Basan Thavoth Jair until this day.
Judges 10:4And he had thirty-two sons riding on thirty-two colts, and they had thirty-two cities; and they called them Jair's towns until this day in the land of Galaad.
1 Chronicles 2:21And after this Esron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Galaad, and he took her when he was sixty-five years old; and she bore him Seruch.
Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:29-42
Inheritance of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1452.) 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: 29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord , and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have… Read the whole commentary →