Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
Parallel translations
- WEB Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- KJV And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
- NKJV Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- NASB Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
- NLT Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.
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Segub fathered Jair, who possessed twenty-three cities in Gilead. It records the family's territorial influence in the land.
Overview
Jair is associated with the Havvoth-Jair settlements in Gilead (Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14), showing how this branch of Judah-through-Manasseh gained substantial holdings. The Chronicler notes the inheritance of the land, a key sign of God's faithfulness to His covenant promises. Possession of the land foreshadows the greater inheritance God secures for His people through Christ.
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Cross-references · 3
- Num 32:41Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.
- Deut 3:14Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
- Josh 13:30The territory from Mahanaim through all Bashan—all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, including all the towns of Jair that are in Bashan, sixty cities;
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