King James Version
What Does 1 Chronicles 2:22 Mean?
“And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.”
Context
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And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.
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And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub. married: Heb. took
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And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
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And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.
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And after that Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah Hezron's wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(22) **And Segub begat Jair** **. . .**—The Havothjair (tent-villages of Jair) are several times mentioned in the Pentateuch. In the passage Numbers 32:39-42 it is related—(1) That the Manassite clan of the sons of Machir took Gilead from the Amorites; (2) That Moses then formally assigned Giiead “to Machir son of Manasseh,” and the clan accordingly settled there; (3) That Jair son of Manasseh had taken their (*i.e.,* the Amorite) tent-villages, and called them Havoth-jair. Comp. Deuteronomy 3:14-15 : “Jair son of Manasseh had taken all the region of Argob unto the bounds of the Geshurite and the Maacnathite; and he called them (that is, Bashan) after his own name, Havoth-jair, unto this day. And to Machir I gave Gilead.”
1Chronicles 2:21-23 show a connection between Jair and the two tribes of Judah and Manasseh thus:—
Judah
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Manasseh
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Pharez
Hezron married the daughter of Machir, chief of Gilead
Segub
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Jair
Jair is of course the name of **a** group of kindred families or clans, settled in the twenty-three cities.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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