Numbers 32:41

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“Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.”

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BSBPD

“Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth–jair.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Jair son of Manasseh hath gone and captureth their towns, and calleth them `Towns of Jair;'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Numbers 32:41 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 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.
  2. Joshua 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;
  3. Judges 10:4He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.
  4. 1 Kings 4:13Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
  5. 1 Chronicles 2:21Later, Hezron slept with the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead. He had married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore to him Segub.
  6. 1 Chronicles 2:22Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

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