Numbers 32:41

_AND JAIR THE SON OF MANASSEH WENT AND TOOK THE SMALL TOWNS THEREOF, AND CALLED THEM HAVOTHJAIR._ Havoth-jair - i:e., tent-villages. Jair, who captured them, was a descendant of Manasseh on the mother's side (1 Chronicles 2:21)....

28-42 Concerning the settlement of these tribes, observe, that they built the cities, that is, repaired them. They changed the names of them; probably they were idolatrous, therefore they should be forgotten. A spirit of selfishness, of seeking our own, not the things of Christ, when each one ought to assist others, is as dangerous as it is common. It is impossible to be sincere in the faith, sensible of the goodness of God, constrained by the love of Christ, sanctified by the power of the Holy Ghost, and yet be indifferent to the progress of religion, and the spiritual success of others, through love of ease, or fear of conflict. Let then your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven....

Verse 41. _HAVOTH-JAIR._] That is, the _villages_ or _habitations of Jair_; and thus they should have been translated. As these two tribes and a half were the _first_, says Ainsworth, who had their inheritance assigned to them in the promised land, so they were the first of all Israel that were carried captive out of their own land, because of their sins. "For they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after other gods. And God delivered them into the hands of _Pul_ and _Tiglath-Pilneser_, kings of Assyria, and they brought them to _Halah, Habor, Hara_, and _Gozan_, unto this day." See 1 Chronicles 5:25-13....

The exploits of Jair - he was the conqueror of Argob Deuteronomy 3:14 - gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luke 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighboring city of Capernaum. HAVOTH-JAIR - That is, the villages, or rather groups of tents, or “kraals,” of Jair. Originally they were twenty-three in number 1 Chronicles 2:22 : in the days of the youuger Jair, to whom they probably descended by inheritance, they either had increased to thirty, or were reckoned at that round number...

EXPOSITION THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES BEYOND JORDAN (Numbers 32:1). NUMBERS 32:1 THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD. Reuben and Gad had both been camped on the same (southern) side of the tabernacle, but had not apparently been neighbours, since Simeon intervened on the march (see on Numbers 2:10-4). Simeon, however, was at this time enfeebled and disgraced, and was not likely to assert himself in any way. The "great multitude of cattle" belonging to the two tribes probably point to pastoral habits of long standing, since the cattle o

AND JAIR THE SON OF MANASSEH,.... By his mother's side, otherwise he was of the family of Judah; for Hezron, of the family of Judah, married a daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh, by whom he had a son called Segub, who was the father of Jair, 1 Chronicles 2:21, the same WENT AND TOOK THE SMALL TOWNS THEREOF; of that part of Gilead given to Machir: AND CALLED THEM HAVOTHJAIR; after his own name: in Deuteronomy 3:14, they are called Bashanhavothjair....

8. THE TRIBES OF REUBEN, GAD, HALF-MANASSEH AND THEIR PORTION CHAPTER 32 _ 1. The petition of Reuben and Gad (Numbers 32:1)_ 2. The rebuke by Moses (Numbers 32:6) 3. Their answer (Numbers 32:16) 4. Moses' reply (Numbers 32:20) 5. The final agreement (Numbers 32:25) Failure is now again manifested. Reuben and Gad looked upon the beautiful territory which had been taken from the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og. As Reuben and Gad were especially rich in cattle and the territory was one of great

THE SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN MANASSITES IN GILEAD. This is a fragment relating to a period later than the Mosaic age. Machir was a Manassite clan, and Jair and Nobah (Numbers 32:41 f.) were probably subdivisions of Machir. Manasseh and Ephraim were at first established together on the W. of Jordan by Joshua (Joshua 17:14 f.), and any Manassite occupation of Gilead was probably subsequent to his time. NUMBERS 32:39. GILEAD: the name, here and in Numbers 32:40, is applied to the country between the Jabbok and the Jarmuk. Numbers 32:4

JAIR. In the Hebrew this verse begins and ends with the word "Jair". Figure of speech _Epanadiplosis_ (App-6). HAVOTH. the encampments, or tent villages (of Jair)....

_Jair the son of Manasseh_ This Manassite clan that took Gilead and gave its name to the district Havvôth-Jair (-the towns of Jair," marg. or better -the tent villages of J.") is mentioned in Judges 10:3-4 as Jair the Gileadite, and is represented as one of the judges of Israel. The territory which the clan occupied is identified in Deuteronomy 3:14 with Argob in Bashan (cf. Joshua 13:30). But Deuteronomy 3:5 is not in agreement with that, because Argob is described as a region of fenced cities with -high walls, gates, and bars"; while the clan dwelt in tent villages. And in...