1 Chronicles 2:22

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three villages in the region of Gilead.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 2:21

When Hezron was sixty years old, he married the daughter of Machir, who settled the region of Gilead. Their son Segub

1 Chronicles 2:23

Some time later the nations of Geshur and Aram captured sixty towns in that region, including the villages that belonged to Jair, as well as the town of Kenath and the nearby villages. Everyone from the region of Gilead was a descendant of Machir.

Numbers 32:40

So Moses gave the Machirites the region of Gilead, and they settled there.

Numbers 32:41

Jair from the Manasseh tribe captured villages and renamed them “Villages of Jair”.

Joshua 13:30

Their land started at Mahanaim and took in the region that King Og of Bashan had ruled, including Ashtaroth and Edrei, the two towns where he had lived. The villages where the Jair clan settled were part of Manasseh's land, and so was the northern half of the region of Gilead. The clans of this half of Manasseh had sixty towns in all. The Manasseh tribe is sometimes called the Machir tribe, after Manasseh's son Machir.