And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
and he judgeth Israel twenty and three years, and he dieth, and is buried in Shamir.
And he judged Israel twenty-three years; and he died, and was buried in Shamir.
Judges — The post-conquest slide into cyclical apostasy. Twelve judges delivering Israel from successive oppressors, a pattern repeating seven times, and an appendix whose violence diagnoses a nation with no king.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully discharged it, and died in honour: and was buried in Shamir; the place where he executed his office. It is said (t), that in the first year of Tola, the son of Puah, Priamus reigned in Troy. (t) Juchasin, fol. 136. 1.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Num 32:41; Deu 3:14, as having given the name of Havoth-jair to certain villages in Bashan.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
Jair bore the name of a very famous man of the same tribe who in Moses's time was very active in reducing this country, Num. xxxii. That which is chiefly remarkable concerning this Jair is the increase and honour of his family: He had thirty sons,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches1
For three hundred years Israel has lived in Heshbon, Aroer, and their villages, as well as all the cities along the banks of the Arnon. Why did you not take them back during that time?
