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Judges 10:5

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does Judges 10:5 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
Judges 10:5 — American Standard Version

Context — Judges 10

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
2And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
3And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years.
4And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
5And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon.
6And the children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served the Baalim, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Jehovah, and served him not.
7And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
8And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
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What do historical commentaries say?

John Gill's Exposition
John Gill (1697–1771) · Exposition of the Old and New Testament · 18th-century historical commentary
“And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.] A city of Gilead, as Josephus f217 calls it; Jerom f218, 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 f219 observes, this seems not to be the same place, but rather this is the Camon Polybius f220 speaks of among other cities of Peraea, taken by Antiochus.”
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