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Numbers 32:41

in Numbers 32

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.

KJV

And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.

This verse in Numbers 32

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
And Jair the son of Manasseh,.... By his mother's side, otherwise he was of the family of Judah; for Hezron, of the family of Judah, married a daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh, by whom he had a son called Segub, who was the father of Jair, 1Ch 2:21, the same went and took the small towns thereof; of that part of Gilead given to Machir: and called them Havothjair; after his own name: in Deu 3:14, they are called Bashanhavothjair.

This site's exposition

the children of Machir the son of Manasseh

on Numbers 32:39-42

The chapter closes with three men who take ground and put a name on it, Machir, Jair and Nobah. The towns of Jair are the Havoth-jair of Deuteronomy 3:14, and Nobah puts his own name on Kenath, which Albert Barnes notes fell out of use so completely that the older name holds the site today. The tribes that settled first, and settled outside the borders drawn in Numbers 34, are the tribes carried away first, which 2 Kings 15:29 and 1 Chronicles 5:26 record.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Jazer - A city and country of the Amorites; Gilead - A mountainous country, famous for pasturage 6. Ye sit here - In ease and peace, while your brethren are engaged in a bloody war.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror of Argob Deu 3:14 - gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luk 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighboring city of Capernaum. Havoth-jair - That is, the villages, or rather groups of tents, or “kraals,” of Jair.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

Havoth-jair - That is, the villages or habitations of Jair; and thus they should have been translated. As these two tribes and a half were the first, says Ainsworth, who had their inheritance assigned to them in the promised land, so they were the first of all Israel that were carried captive out of their own land, because of their sins. “For they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after other gods. And God delivered them into the hands of Pul and Tiglath-Pilneser, kings of Assyria, and they brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan, unto this day.” See 1Ch 5:25, 1Ch 5:26.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וְיָאִ֤ירand Jair

    veyairH2971

  • בֶּן־[the] son of

    ben-H11214930 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁה֙Manasseh

    menashehH4519146 times

  • הָלַ֔ךְhe went

    halakhH19801546 times

  • וַיִּלְכֹּ֖דand he captured

    vaiyilkodH3920121 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • חַוֹּתֵיהֶ֑םvillages their

    chavoteihemH2333

  • וַיִּקְרָ֥אand he called

    vaiyikra'H7121733 times

  • אֶתְהֶ֖ן<obj.> them

    ʾethenH85310935 times

  • חַוֹּ֥תHavvoth

    chavotH2334

  • יָאִֽיר׃Jair

    yairH2334

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

    1 Kings 4:13

    Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 3:4

      At that time we captured all sixty of his cities. There was not a single city we failed to take—the entire region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

    • 1 Kings 22:3

      who said to his servants, “Do you not know that Ramoth-gilead is ours, but we have failed to take it from the hand of the king of Aram?”

  • 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;

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 2:21–23

      Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • 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…

    it leads to

    • 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

    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.

    it leads to

    • Judges 12:14

      He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

About Numbers

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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.