Numbers 32:41 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 32:41

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

BSB

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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.

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

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The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיָאִ֤יר	ve.ya.'Ir	and Jair	H2971 →
בֶּן־	ben-	[the] son of	H1121 →
מְנַשֶּׁה֙	me.na.Sheh	Manasseh	H4519 →
הָלַ֔ךְ	ha.Lakh	he went	H1980 →
וַיִּלְכֹּ֖ד	vai.yil.Kod	and he captured	H3920 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
חַוֹּתֵיהֶ֑ם	cha.vo.tei.Hem	villages their	H2333 →
וַיִּקְרָ֥א	vai.yik.Ra'	and he called	H7121 →
אֶתְהֶ֖ן	'et.Hen	<obj.> them	H853 →
חַוֹּ֥ת	cha.Vot	Havvoth	H2334 →
יָאִֽיר׃	ya.'Ir	Jair	H2334 →

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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
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);
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;
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 independent 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…
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.
leads to
- Judges 12:14
  He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years.

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