3And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
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And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, are the worst to write of, as yielding least variety of matter for the historian to entertain his reader with; such were the reigns of these two judges, Tola and Jair, who make but a small figure and take up but a very little room in this history. But no doubt they were both raised up of God to serve their country in the quality of judges, no…
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