Judges 10:3
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
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Gill's Exposition
And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite,.... Who was of the half tribe of Manasseh, on the other side Jordan, which inhabited the land of Gilead, and who is the first of the judges that was on that side…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Jair, the Gileadite Called -the son of Manasseh" in Num 32:41; Deu 3:14, cf. Jos 13:30; in 1Ch 2:21 ff. he is the great-grandson of Machir. Gilead was the name applied generally to the country E. of…