Charles Ellicott Commentary Judges 10:3

"And after him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty and two years." — Judges 10:3 (ASV)

Jair, a Gileadite. In Numbers 32:41 we are told of a Jair, the son of Manasseh, who took the small towns of Gilead, and called them Havoth-jair. This earlier Jair, with Nobah, plays a splendid part in Jewish legend, which is only alluded to in Scripture . In what relation the Jair of these verses stood to him we cannot, in the uncertain data of the chronology, decide. The Jair of Numbers 32:41 was descended from Judah on the father’s side, and on the mother’s was a great-grandson of Manasseh.