1 Chronicles 2:22

22 Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2:22 in Other Translations

22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

22 And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

22 Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

22 Then Segub had Jair who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

22 Segub fathered Jair, who possessed 23 towns in the land of Gilead.

1 Chronicles 2:22 Meaning and Commentary

1 Chronicles 2:22

And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land
of Gilead.
] Which, according to Kimchi, he inherited in right of his wife, which, he says, he took out of the land of Gilead; but they seem to be rather what he took by force of arms from the former inhabitants; see ( Numbers 32:41 ) .

1 Chronicles 2:22 In-Context

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

21 Later, Hezron, when he was sixty years old, married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. He made love to her, and she bore him Segub.

22 Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.

23 (But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair, as well as Kenath with its surrounding settlements—sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.

24 After Hezron died in Caleb Ephrathah, Abijah the wife of Hezron bore him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.