Judges 10:5

5 Ya'ir died, and 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 him arose Ya'ir, the Gil`adite; and he judged Yisra'el twenty-two years.

4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvot-Ya'ir to this day, which are in the land of Gil`ad.

5 Ya'ir died, and was buried in Kamon.

6 The children of Yisra'el again did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba`alim, and the `Ashtarot, and the gods of Aram, and the gods of Tzidon, and the gods of Mo'av, and the gods of the children of `Ammon, and the gods of the Pelishtim; and they forsook the LORD, and didn't serve him.

7 The anger of the LORD was kindled against Yisra'el, and he sold them into the hand of the Pelishtim, and into the hand of the children of `Ammon.