1 Chronicles 2:23 BSB

1 Chronicles 2:23

But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

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ASV

And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

KJV

And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Rather, “And Geshur and Aram (i. e. the Geshurites Deu 3:14 and Syrians) took the villages of Jair from them:” recovered, that is, from the new settlers the places which Jair had conquered. All these belonged to the sons of Machir - Rather, “All these were sons of Machir,” i. e. Segub and Jair, with their descendants, were reckoned sons of Machir, rather than sons of Hezron, although only descended from Machir on the mother’s side.

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John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Sons of Machir - Partly to his own sons, and partly to his son- in-law Jair, who by reason of that dear affection which was betwixt them, and his forsaking his own tribe and kindred to fight for them and to dwell with them, is here reckoned as his own son.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּקַּ֣ח	vai.yi.Kach	and he took	H3947 →
גְּשֽׁוּר־	ge.shur-	Geshur	H1650 →
וַ֠אֲרָם	Va.'a.rom	and Aram	H758 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חַוֹּ֨ת	cha.Vot	Havvoth	H2334 →
יָאִ֧יר	ya.'Ir	Jair	H2334 →
מֵאִתָּ֛ם	me.'i.Tam	from with <the> them	H854 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
קְנָ֥ת	ke.Nat	Kenath	H7079 →
וְאֶת־	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
בְּנֹתֶ֖יהָ	be.no.Tei.ha	daughters its	H1323 →
שִׁשִּׁ֣ים	shi.Shim	sixty	H8346 →
עִ֑יר	'Ir	citi[es]	H5892 →
כָּל־	kol-	all	H3605 →
אֵ֕לֶּה	'E.leh	these	H428 →
בְּנֵ֖י	be.Nei	[were] [the] sons of	H1121 →
מָכִ֥יר	ma.Khir	Makir	H4353 →
אֲבִי־	'a.vi-	[the] father of	H1 →
גִלְעָֽד׃	gil.'Ad	Gilead	H1568 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Deuteronomy 3:14
Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this…
leads to
- Numbers 32:41
  Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- 2 Samuel 13:37
  Now Absalom fled and went to Talmai son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But David mourned for his son every day.
- 2 Samuel 10:6
  When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah…
- 2 Samuel 3:3
  his second was Chileab, by Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel; his third was Absalom, the son of Maacah daughter of King Talmai of Geshur;
- Joshua 13:13
  but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.
Through
Joshua 13:13
but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.
leads to
- Joshua 13:11
  also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
- Joshua 23:12–13
  For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
Through
Joshua 13:30
The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
leads to
- Joshua 13:26
  the territory from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

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