Judges 10:4

10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair ¹  – they are in the land of Gilead. ² 

Judges 11:26

11:26 Israel has been living in Heshbon and its nearby towns, in Aroer and its nearby towns, and in all the cities along the Arnon for three hundred years! Why did you not reclaim them during that time?

Judges 11:33

11:33 He defeated them from Aroer all the way to Minnith – twenty cities in all, even as far as Abel Keramim! He wiped them out! ³  The Israelites humiliated the Ammonites. ⁴ 

Judges 20:48

20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns ⁵  and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, ⁶  the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. ⁷ 

Judges 21:23

21:23 The Benjaminites did as instructed. ⁸  They abducted two hundred of the dancing girls to be their wives. ⁹  They went home ¹⁰  to their own territory, ¹¹  rebuilt their cities, and settled down. ¹² 

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¹ sn The name Habboth Jair means “tent villages of Jair” in Hebrew.

² tn Heb “they call them Havvoth Jair to this day – which are in the land of Gilead.”

³ tn Heb “with a very great slaughter.”

⁴ tn Heb “The Ammonites were humbled before the Israelites.”

⁵ tn Heb “to the sons of Benjamin.”

⁶ tc The translation is based on the reading מֵעִיר מְתִים (me’ir mÿtim, “from a city of men,” i.e., “an inhabited city”), rather than the reading מֵעִיר מְתֹם (me’ir mÿtom, “from a city of soundness”) found in the Leningrad Codex (L).

⁷ tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”

⁸ tn Heb “did so.”

⁹ tn Heb “And they took wives according to their number from the dancing girls whom they abducted.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “went and returned.”

¹¹ tn Heb “inheritance.”

¹² tn Heb “and lived in them.”