Discovery BoxJudges 10:4 
Context10:4 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 20:48
Context20:48 The Israelites returned to the Benjaminite towns 3 and put the sword to them. They wiped out the cities, 4 the animals, and everything they could find. They set fire to every city in their path. 5
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 “to the sons of Benjamin.”
4 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).
5 tn Heb “Also all the cities that were found they set on fire.”
