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He had 30 sons. They rode on 30 donkeys and they ruled 30 towns in Gilead. These towns are still called Havvoth-Jair (Jair's villages). Then Jair died and they buried him in Kamon.

The Ammonites fight against Israel

The Israelites again did things that the Lord saw were evil. They worshipped idols of Baal and Ashtoreth. They also worshipped the gods of Syria, Sidon and Moab, as well as the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.[a] They turned away from the Lord and they did not serve him any more.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:6 The Ammonites were the descendants of Ben-Ammi, who was the grandson of Lot. See Genesis 19:36-38.