Numbers 32:41
Jair son of Manasseh went and captured its towns and called them Havvoth Jair.
Unlocked Literal 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
40Then Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and his people settled there.
42Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah, after his own name.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob to the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites. He called the region, even Bashan, by his own name, Havvoth Jair, to this day.)
Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:21Later Hezron (when he was sixty years old) married the daughter of Makir, the father of Gilead. She bore him Segub.
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 →