Kamon

Kamon appears once in Scripture as the burial place of Jair the Gileadite, the eighth judge of Israel: "And Jair died, and was buried in Camon" (Judges 10:5). Jair had judged Israel for twenty-two years from his thirty cities in Gilead — the famous Havvoth-jair — and ruled the eastern tribes through his thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, a sign of patriarchal wealth and authority. Kamon is most commonly identified with Qamm in the highlands of Gilead east of the Jordan, about ten miles southeast of the Sea of Galilee in the territory of half-tribe Manasseh.