Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 32:41
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havoth-jair.
41. Jair the son of Manasseh ] This Manassite clan that took Gilead and gave its name to the district Havvth-Jair (‘the towns of Jair,’ marg. or better ‘the tent villages of J .’) is mentioned in Jdg 10:3-4 as Jair the Gileadite, and is represented as one of the judges of Israel. The territory which the clan occupied is identified in Deu 3:14 with Argob in Bashan (cf. Jos 13:30). But Deu 3:5 is not in agreement with that, because Argob is described as a region of fenced cities with ‘high walls, gates, and bars’; while the clan dwelt in tent villages. And in 1Ki 4:13 the two districts seem to be expressly distinguished.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The exploits of Jair – he was the conqueror of Argob Deu 3:14 – gave new. luster to his name; and the fame of the family is attested by the history of Jair the Israelite judge, doubtless a descendant; perhaps also by the mention of Jairus Luk 8:41, the ruler of the synagogue at the neighboring city of Capernaum.
Havoth-jair – That is, the villages, or rather groups of tents, or kraals, of Jair. Originally they were twenty-three in number 1Ch 2:22 : in the days of the youuger Jair, to whom they probably descended by inheritance, they either had increased to thirty, or were reckoned at that round number Jdg 10:4.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 41. Havoth-jair.] That is, the villages or habitations of Jair; and thus they should have been translated. As these two tribes and a half were the first, says Ainsworth, who had their inheritance assigned to them in the promised land, so they were the first of all Israel that were carried captive out of their own land, because of their sins. “For they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after other gods. And God delivered them into the hands of Pul and Tiglath-Pilneser, kings of Assyria, and they brought them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Gozan, unto this day.” See 1Ch 5:25-26.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Jair is called here
the son of Manasseh, partly because he was so by his mother, 1Ch 2:21,22; and partly because he joined himself with the Manassites in this expedition, and settled himself among them.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
41. Havoth-jairthat is,”tent-villages.” Jair, who captured them, was a descendantof Manasseh on his mother’s side (1Ch 1:21;1Ch 1:22).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Jair the son of Manasseh,…. By his mother’s side, otherwise he was of the family of Judah; for Hezron, of the family of Judah, married a daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh, by whom he had a son called Segub, who was the father of Jair, 1Ch 2:21, the same
went and took the small towns thereof; of that part of Gilead given to Machir:
and called them Havothjair; after his own name: in De 3:14, they are called Bashanhavothjair.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
The family of Manasseh named after Machir included “ Jair the son (i.e., descendant) of Manasseh.” Jair, that is to say, was the grandson of a daughter of Machir the son of Manasseh, and therefore a great-grandson of Manasseh on the mother’s side. His father Segub was the son of Hezron of the tribe of Judah, who had married a daughter of Manasseh ( 1Ch 2:21-22); so that Jair, or rather Segub, had gone over with his descendants into the maternal tribe, contrary to the ordinary rule, and probably because Machir had portioned his daughter with a rich dowry like an heiress. Jair took possession of the whole of the province of Argob in Bashan, i.e., in the plain of Jaulan and Hauran (Deu 3:4 and Deu 3:14), and gave the conquered towns the name of Havvoth Jair, i.e., Jair’s-lives (see at Deu 3:14).
Fuente: Keil & Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament
(41) And Jair the son of Manasseh . . . Jair was the son of Segub, the son of Hezron, who married the daughter of Machir, the son of Manasseh (1Ch. 2:21-22). Jair was, therefore, the great-grandson of Manasseh, and was one of those Israelites who were reckoned as belonging to their maternal tribe.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
41. Havoth-jair Towns of Jair. Jos 13:30, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Num 32:41. Jair the son of Manasseh One of the posterity of Manasseh by the mother’s side; for he was the grandson of Gilead, the son of Machir, by his daughter, 1Ch 2:21-22 but his father was of the tribe of Judah. It seems that he had joined with the children of Machir in their expedition against Gilead, and, being successful, had his inheritance among them, which he called Havoth-jair, i.e. the villages or habitations of Jair. Nobah, Num 32:42 was some eminent person, probably of the same tribe, who accompanied Jair in the aforesaid expedition. As these two tribes and a half were the first that had their inheritance assigned them, so they were the first who, for their idolatry, were carried captives out of the land. 1Ch 5:25-26. Their early defection from the true religion might, possibly, be owing, in a great measure, to their being situated at so great a distance from the place of public worship.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Jair. In the Hebrew this verse begins and ends with the word “Jair”. Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6).
Havoth = the encampments, or tent villages (of Jair).
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Jair: Deu 3:14, Jos 13:30, 1Ch 2:21-23
Havothjair: Jdg 10:4, 1Ki 4:13
Reciprocal: 1Ch 2:22 – Jair
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
32:41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them {n} Havothjair.
(n) That is the villages of Jair.