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The eighth judge Jair the Gileadite rules Israel for twenty-two years from his thirty cities in Gilead — Havvoth-jair — with thirty sons riding thirty donkeys and is buried at Kamon east of the Jordan.
Judges 10:3-5 introduces the eighth judge of Israel after Tola: "And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years. And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havoth-jair unto this day, which are in the land of Gilead. And Jair died, and was buried in Camon." The thirty sons riding donkeys signaled patriarchal wealth and judicial authority across the cluster of villages east of the Jordan. His tenure marked a rare period of stability in the chaotic judges era before the apostasy that brought the Ammonite oppression.
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