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Judges 10:5 Explained in Context
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Verse 5. 5And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
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Quick Meaning
This verse closes Jair's notice with death and burial at Camon.
Read It With
- Judges 10:1–5
Read Judges 10:1–5 together. This verse closes Jair's notice with death and burial at Camon. The paired notices give each judge his region, years, death, and burial, with Jair's sons and towns between; verse 6 begins a new apostasy crisis.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The short notices stabilize the narrative after Abimelech without inventing battles, while Jair's household wealth and local reach keep questions of status and succession in view. Within that movement, closes Jair's notice with death and burial at Camon.
Read Judges 10:1–5 together
Why these verses belong together: The paired notices give each judge his region, years, death, and burial, with Jair's sons and towns between; verse 6 begins a new apostasy crisis.
Verse 1. 1 And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Verse 2. 2 And he judged Israel twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Verse 3. 3 And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
Verse 4. 4 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.
Verse 5. 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.
What Remains True
Closes Jair's notice with death and burial at Camon. Quiet continuity matters, and unexplained prestige should be observed without either automatic praise or accusation.
How It Can Shape Life
- Because Judges 10:5 closes Jair's notice with death and burial at Camon, evaluate long service through verifiable outcomes and governance arrangements rather than demanding a dramatic founder story.
Continue in Context
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Read Judges 10:1–5 — Tola and Jair quietly judge IsraelSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage.
Exact location: Judges 10:1–5, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Judges
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clause relationships, repeated terms, wordplays, and translation control.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Judg.xml, 10:1–5
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Judges with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level translation, syntax, textual, poetic, geographical, social, and uncertainty notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Judges PDF, printed pp. 471, translation and notes on 10:1–5
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