And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Years. S. Severus says 22, making the reign of Jair of equal length. Cum æque vigintiduos annos principatum obtinuisset. But this is contrary to all the best chronologers. The fidelity of the Israelites seems to have been of no longer continuance at this period than usual, as we find that they relapsed into idolatry again, at least after the death of Jair, within 45 years after they had been scourged by the tyrant Abimelech, ver. 6. (Haydock)
