Numbers 32:41

And Jair, son of Manasseh, went, and captured their encampments,—and called them Havvoth-jair [="The encampments of Jair"].

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

40So Moses gave Gilead unto Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelt therein.

42And, Nobah, went, and captured Kenath, with the villages thereof,—and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 3:14Jair, son of Manasseh, took all the region of Argob, as far as the boundary of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites,—and called them after his own name The Bashan of Havvoth-jair unto this day.

Judges 10:4Now he had thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had, thirty cities,—they are called Havvoth-jair, until this day, which are in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2:21And, afterward, Hezron went in unto the daughter of Machir, father of Gilead, and he took her when he was sixty years old,—and she bare 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 →

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