1 Chronicles 2:22

22 S'guv fathered Ya'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil'ad.

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 fathered Uri, and Uri fathered B'tzal'el.
21 Afterwards, Hetzron had sexual relations with the daughter of Machir the father of Gil'ad; he married her when he was sixty years old, and she bore him S'guv.
22 S'guv fathered Ya'ir, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gil'ad.
23 (But G'shur and Aram took Havot-Ya'ir away from them, along with K'nat and its villages - sixty cities.) All these were descendants of Machir the father of Gil'ad.
24 After Hetzron died in Kalev-Efratah, Aviyah Hetzron's wife bore him Ash'chur the father of T'koa.
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