14 Jair,(A) a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites;(B) it was named(C) after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.[a])

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  1. Deuteronomy 3:14 Or called the settlements of Jair

41 Jair,(A) a descendant of Manasseh, captured their settlements and called them Havvoth Jair.[a](B)

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  1. Numbers 32:41 Or them the settlements of Jair

37 Absalom fled and went to Talmai(A) son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur. But King David mourned many days for his son.

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When the Ammonites realized that they had become obnoxious(A) to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean(B) foot soldiers from Beth Rehob(C) and Zobah,(D) as well as the king of Maakah(E) with a thousand men, and also twelve thousand men from Tob.(F)

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his second, Kileab the son of Abigail(A) the widow of Nabal of Carmel;

the third, Absalom(B) the son of Maakah daughter of Talmai king of Geshur;(C)

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13 But the Israelites did not drive out the people of Geshur(A) and Maakah,(B) so they continue to live among the Israelites to this day.(C)

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21 Later, Hezron, when he was sixty years old, married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead.(A) He made love to her, and she bore him Segub. 22 Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead. 23 (But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair,[a](B) as well as Kenath(C) with its surrounding settlements—sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.

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  1. 1 Chronicles 2:23 Or captured the settlements of Jair

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