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1 Chronicles 2:22

JairSegubGilead

20 Hur was the father of Uri, and Uri was the father of Bezalel.

21 Later, 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.

Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

23 But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth-jair, along with Kenath and its sixty surrounding villages. All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gilead.

24 After Hezron died in Caleb-ephrathah, his wife Abijah bore to him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.

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BSB
Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
KJV
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
WEB
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
ASV
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.
DARBY
And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;
BLB
And Segub begat Jair, and he had unto him twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.
ÅB
Og Segub fikk sønnen Ja'ir; han hadde tre og tyve byer i Gileads land.
OTB
Segub var far til Jair, som eide tjuetre byer i landet Gilead.
B1930
Og Segub fikk sønnen Ja'ir; han hadde tre og tyve byer i Gileads land.

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Cross references

  • Numbers 32:41

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

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  • Joshua 13:30

    The 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;

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  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    Jair, 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.

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