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

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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