And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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Gill's Exposition
And he judged Israel twenty three years, and died,.... He did not take upon him to be king, as Abimelech did, but acted as a judge, in which office he continued twenty three years, and faithfully…
Barnes' Notes
Jair the Gileadite was probably the same person as is named in Num 32:41; Deu 3:14, as having given the name of “Havoth-jair” to certain villages in Bashan.
Quiet and peaceable reigns, though the best to live in, are the worst to write of, as yielding least variety of matter for the historian to entertain his reader with; such were the reigns of these two…
Cambridge Bible
And he judged Jdg 10:10; see Jdg 3:10 n.
and was buried, in Shamir -We are probably to infer that the tomb of the eponymous ancestor of the clan was in later times shewn at Shamir" (Moore). This…