Shofetim 10:5

5 And Yair died, and was buried in Kamon.

Shofetim 10:5 Meaning and Commentary

Judges 10:5

And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
] A city of Gilead, as Josephus ^F21 calls it; Jerom ^F23, under this word Camon, makes mention of a village in his times, called Cimana, in the large plain six miles from Legion to the north, as you go to Ptolemais; but, as Reland ^F24 observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius ^F25 speaks of among other cities of Peraea, taken by Antiochus.

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Antiqu. l. 5. c. 7. sect. 6.
F23 De loc. Heb. fol. 90. B.
F24 Palestina Illustr. tom. 2. p. 679.
F25 Hist. l. 5.

Shofetim 10:5 In-Context

3 And after him arose Yair, a Gileadi, and judged Yisroel twenty and two shanah.

4 And he had shloshim banim that rode on shloshim donkeys, and they had shloshim towns, which are called Chavvot Yair unto this day, which are in Eretz Gil‘ad.

5 And Yair died, and was buried in Kamon.

6 And the Bnei Yisroel did evil again in the sight of Hashem, and served Baalim, and Ashtarot, and the elohei Aram, and the elohei Tzidon, and the elohei Moav, and the elohei Bnei Ammon, and the elohei Pelishtim, and forsook Hashem, and served Him not.

7 And the Af Hashem was hot against Yisroel, and He sold them into the yad Pelishtim (Philistines), and into the yad Bnei Ammon.