Numbers 32:41
And Yair Ben Menasheh went and captured the settlements thereof, and called them Chavot Ya'ir.
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 Moshe gave Gil'ad unto Machir Ben Menasheh; and he dwelt therein.
42And Novach went and captured Kenat, and the villages thereof, and called it Novach, after shmo.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:14Yair ben Menasheh took all the region of Argov unto the border of Geshuri and Ma'akhati, and called them after shmo (his own name), HaBashan Havot Yair, unto hayom hazeh.
Judges 10:4And he had shloshim banim that rode on shloshim donkeys, and they had shloshim towns, which are called Chavvot Yair unto this day, which are in Eretz Gil'ad.
1 Chronicles 2:21And afterward Chetzron went in to the Bat Machir avi Gil'ad, whom he married when his age was threescore shanim; and she bore him Seguv.
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 →