Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
Updated King James Version
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 Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
42And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 3:14Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
Judges 10:4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore 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 →