Judges 10:5

5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

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 After Tola, Jair from Gilead arose, and he led Israel for twenty-two years.

4 He had thirty sons who were mounted on thirty donkeys and controlled thirty towns in the land of Gilead—these are still known as Havvoth-jair today.

5 When Jair died, he was buried in Kamon.

6 Then the Israelites again did things that the LORD saw as evil. They served the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, the Ammonites, and the Philistines. They went away from the LORD and didn't serve him.

7 The LORD became angry with Israel and handed them over to the Philistines and the Ammonites.