1 Chronicles 2:22

22 And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities 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 And Hur begat Uri, and Uri begat Bezalel.

21 And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he took [to wife] when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

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

23 And Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and the villages thereof, even threescore cities. All these were the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

24 And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephrathah, then Abijah Hezron's wife bare him Ashhur the father of Tekoa.