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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.

He had thirty sons, who rode thirty donkeys.(A) They controlled thirty towns in Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth Jair.[a](B) When Jair(C) died, he was buried in Kamon.

Jephthah

Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.(D) They served the Baals and the Ashtoreths,(E) and the gods of Aram,(F) the gods of Sidon,(G) the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites(H) and the gods of the Philistines.(I) And because the Israelites forsook the Lord(J) and no longer served him,

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 10:4 Or called the settlements of Jair