Deuteronomy 3:14

14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)

Deuteronomy 3:14 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 3:14

Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob
Or Trachonitis; the small towns belonging to Gilead, as in ( Numbers 32:41 )

unto the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi;
these were little kingdoms in Syria, on which the country of Argob bordered, and had kings over them in the time of David, and came not into the possession of the Israelites; see ( Joshua 13:13 ) ( 2 Samuel 3:3 ) ( 2 Samuel 10:6 2 Samuel 10:8 ) ( 15:8 )

and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day;
see ( Numbers 32:41 ) .

Deuteronomy 3:14 In-Context

12 And this land which we took at that time, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, and half the hill-country of Gilead with its towns, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites.

13 The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, all the land of Argob, together with Bashan, I gave to the half-tribe of Manasseh. (This land is named the land of the Rephaim.

14 Jair, the son of Manasseh, took all the land of Argob, as far as the country of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, naming it, Bashan, Havvoth-Jair after himself, as it is to this day.)

15 And Gilead I gave to Machir.

16 And the land from Gilead to the valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a limit, as far as the river Jabbok which is the limit of the country of the children of Ammon, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites;