1 Chronicles 2:22
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New International Version (©2011)
Segub was the father of Jair, who controlled twenty-three towns in Gilead.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Segub was the father of Jair, who ruled twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Segub fathered Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Segub fathered Jair, who possessed 23 towns in the land of Gilead.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Segub fathered Jair, who had 23 towns in the land of Gilead.

NET Bible (©2006)
Segub was the father of Jair, who owned twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Segub was the father of Jair, who had 23 towns in Gilead.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

American King James Version
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Segub beget Jair, and he had three and twenty cities in the land of Galaad.

Darby Bible Translation
And Segub begot Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead;

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

Webster's Bible Translation
And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

World English Bible
Segub became the father of Jair, who had twenty-three cities in the land of Gilead.

Young's Literal Translation
And Segub begat Jair, and he hath twenty and three cities in the land of Gilead,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:1-55 Genealogies. - We are now come to the register of the children of Israel, that distinguished people, who were to dwell alone, and not be reckoned among the nations. But now, in Christ, all are welcome to his salvation who come to him; all have equal privileges according to their faith in him, their love and devotedness to him. All that is truly valuable consists in the favour, peace, and image of God, and a life spent to his glory, in promoting the welfare of our fellow-creatures.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

22. Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead—As the son of Segub and the grandson of Hezron, he was of the tribe of Judah; but from his maternal descent he is called (Nu 32:41; De 3:14) "the son of Manasseh." This designation implies that his inheritance lay in that tribe in right of his grandmother; in other words, his maternal and adopting great-grandfather was Machir the son of Manasseh. Jair, inheriting his property, was his lineal representative; and accordingly this is expressly stated to be the case; for the village group of "Havoth-Jair" was awarded to him in that tribe, in consequence of his valiant and patriotic exploits. This arrangement, however, took place previous to the law (Nu 36:1-13), by which it was enacted that heiresses were to marry in their own tribe. But this instance of Jair shows that in the case of a man obtaining an inheritance in another tribe it required him to become thoroughly incorporated with it as a representative of the family through which the inheritance was received. He had been adopted into Manasseh, and it would never have been imagined that he was other than "a son of Manasseh" naturally, had not this passage given information supplementary to that of the passage in Numbers.

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Descendants of Hezron
…21And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was three score years old; and she bore him Segub. 22And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead. 23And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them, with Kenath, and the towns thereof, even three score cities. All these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead.

Deuteronomy 3:14 Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maakathites; it was named after him, so that to this day Bashan is called Havvoth Jair.)
1 Chronicles 2:21 Later, Hezron, when he was sixty years old, married the daughter of Makir the father of Gilead. He made love to her, and she bore him Segub.
1 Chronicles 2:23 (But Geshur and Aram captured Havvoth Jair, as well as Kenath with its surrounding settlements--sixty towns.) All these were descendants of Makir the father of Gilead.