What the Bible says about

Jair

9 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.”
Numbers 32:41 BSB
“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.”
Deuteronomy 3:14 BSB
“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;”
Joshua 13:30 BSB
“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);”
1 Kings 4:13 BSB
“Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.”
1 Chronicles 2:22 BSB
“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.”
1 Chronicles 2:23 BSB
“Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.”
Judges 10:3-5 BSB
“Now there was at the citadel of Susa a Jewish man from the tribe of Benjamin named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish.”
Esther 2:5 BSB
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