To him succeeded Jair the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years.

And there riseth after him Jair the Gileadite, and he judgeth Israel twenty and two years,

And after him came Jair the Gileadite, who was judge over Israel for twenty-two years.

After him succeeded Jair, a Gileadite, who judged Israel for twenty-two years,

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite,.... Who was of the half tribe of Manasseh, on the other side Jordan, which inhabited the land of Gilead, and who is the first of the judges that was on that side Jordan; it pleased God, before the government was settled in a particular tribe, to remove it from one to another, and to honour them all, and to show that though the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, were separated from their brethren by the river Jordan, they were not neglected by the Lord; and generally speaking judges were raised up in all those parts which were most oppressed, and liable to be oppressed by their enemies, as Gilead by the Ammonites; wherefore this, and the next judge that followed him, Jephthah, were of Gilead:
and judged Israel twenty two years; protected them from their enemies, administered justice to them, and preserved them in the true religion.

Jair, a Gileadite--This judge was a different person from the conqueror of that northeastern territory, and founder of Havoth-jair, or "Jair's villages" (Numbers 32:41; Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 13:3; 1-Chronicles 2:22).

A Gileadite - Of Gilead beyond Jordan.