Jair

Judges 10:3-5 introduces Jair the Gileadite as 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." His thirty sons riding on donkeys signaled patriarchal wealth and judicial authority over the cluster of villages east of the Jordan. He should not be confused with the earlier Jair son of Manasseh (Numbers 32:41) who originally conquered the Havvoth-jair region.