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

14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

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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

21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

23 And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even threescore cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

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