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Deuteronomy 3:14

in Deuteronomy 3

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 day.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)

KJV

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashan–havoth–jair, unto this day.

This verse in Deuteronomy 3

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob,.... Or Trachonitis; the small towns belonging to Gilead, as in Num 32:41. unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; these were little kingdoms in Syria, on which the country of Argob bordered, and had kings over them in the time of David, and came not into the possession of the Israelites; see Jos 13:13. and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day; see Num 32:41.

This site's exposition

Jair the son of Manasseh took

on Deuteronomy 3:14-15

Jair takes the country of Argob out to the borders of Geshuri and Maachathi and puts his own name on it, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day. Albert Barnes observes that unto this day fixes no particular length of time and by itself settles nothing about when the sentence was written. Machir receives Gilead through his descendants, since Numbers 32:40 makes the grant to the family, and Judges 10:3-4 later has a second Jair in Gilead with thirty sons and thirty cities under the same name.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

These Geshurites held territory adjoining, if not included within, Bashan. They are not to be confounded with those mentioned in Jos 13:2, who were neighbors of the Philistines 1Sa 17:8. The exact position of Maachah like that of Geshur cannot be ascertained; but it was no doubt among the fastnesses which lay between Bashan and the kingdom of Damascus, and on the skirts of Mount Hermon. Unto this day - This expression, like our “until now,” does not, as used in the Bible, necessarily imply that the time spoken of as elapsed is long.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob--The original inhabitants of the province north of Bashan, comprising sixty cities (De 3:4), not having been extirpated along with Og, this people were afterwards brought into subjection by the energy of Jair.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Bashan-havoth-jair - Bashan of the cities of Jair; see Num 32:41.

The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • יָאִ֣ירJair

    yairH2971

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֗הManasseh

    menashehH4519146 times

  • לָקַח֙he took

    lakachH3947966 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • חֶ֣בֶל[the] region of

    chevelH225662 times

  • אַרְגֹּ֔בArgob

    ʾargoH7095 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • גְּב֥וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366240 times

  • הַגְּשׁוּרִ֖יthe Geshurite[s]

    hageshuriH1651

  • וְהַמַּֽעֲכָתִ֑יand the Maacathite[s]

    vehamaakhatiH4602

  • וַיִּקְרָא֩and he called

    vaiyikra'H7121733 times

  • אֹתָ֨ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH85310935 times

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H59215755 times

  • שְׁמ֤וֹown name his

    shemoH8034864 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הַבָּשָׁן֙<the> Bashan

    habashanH131660 times

  • חַוֹּ֣ת[the] villages of

    chavotH2334

  • יָאִ֔ירJair

    yairH2334

  • עַ֖דuntil

    ʾadH57041261 times

  • הַיּ֥וֹםthe day

    haiyomH31172304 times

  • הַזֶּֽה׃<the> this

    hazehH20881180 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 8:3

      David also defeated Hadadezer son of Rehob, king of Zobah, who had marched out to restore his dominion along the Euphrates River.

    • 2 Samuel 8:5

      When the Arameans of Damascus came to help King Hadadezer of Zobah, David struck down twenty-two thousand men.

    • Genesis 34:30

      Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if…

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • 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;

    • 2 Samuel 14:23

      So Joab got up, went to Geshur, and brought Absalom to Jerusalem.

  • Through

    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;

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 27:8

      Now David and his men went up and raided the Geshurites, the Girzites, and the Amalekites. (From ancient times these people had inhabited the land extending to Shur and Egypt.)

  • Through

    Numbers 32:41

    Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

    it leads to

    • Judges 10:4

      He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

  • 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.

    it leads to

    • 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,

Where this verse is studied

About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.