American Standard Version
1 Chronicles 2:22
22And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
1 Chronicles 2:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
- New International Version (NIV)Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:22
20And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel. 21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he tookto wifewhen he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead. 23And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead. 24And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:22 word by word
וּשְׂג֖וּב הוֹלִ֣יד אֶת־יָאִ֑יר וַֽיְהִי־ל֗וֹ עֶשְׂרִ֤ים וְשָׁלוֹשׁ֙ עָרִ֔ים בְּאֶ֖רֶץ הַגִּלְעָֽד׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:22
- Numbers 32:41And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deuteronomy 3:14Jair 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.)
- Joshua 13:30And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:22
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22Jair, who had three and twenty cities - The places called “Havoth-Jair” in the earlier Scriptures (see Numbers 32:41 note), which appear to have been a number of “small towns,” or villages, in the Ledjah, the Classical “Trachonitis.”Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 21-23Some families from Gilead, who are listed as part of the tribe of Manasseh (see Numbers 32:39–42), also had ties to the tribe of Judah.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead--As the son of Segub and the grandson of Hezron, he was of the tribe of Judah; but from his maternal descent he is called (Nu 32:41; De 3:14) "the son of Manasseh." This designation implies that his inheritance lay in that tribe in right of his grandmother; in other words, his maternal and adopting great-grandfather was Machir the son of Manasseh. Jair, inheriting his property, was his lineal…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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