Judges 10:5

5 mortuusque est Iair ac sepultus in loco cui est vocabulum Camon

Judges 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.

Judges 10:5 In-Context

3 huic successit Iair Galaadites qui iudicavit Israhel per viginti et duos annos

4 habens triginta filios sedentes super triginta pullos asinarum et principes triginta civitatum quae ex nomine eius appellatae sunt Avothiair id est oppida Iair usque in praesentem diem in terra Galaad

5 mortuusque est Iair ac sepultus in loco cui est vocabulum Camon

6 filii autem Israhel peccatis veteribus iungentes nova fecerunt malum in conspectu Domini et servierunt idolis Baalim et Astharoth et diis Syriae ac Sidonis et Moab et filiorum Ammon et Philisthim dimiseruntque Dominum et non colebant eum

7 contra quos iratus tradidit eos in manu Philisthim et filiorum Ammon