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1 Chronicles 2:22

JairSegubGilead

20 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezaleel.

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.

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.

24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur 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

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

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  • Joshua 13:30

    And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities:

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  • Deuteronomy 3:14

    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, Bashan-havoth-jair, unto this day.

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