He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
"The passages on the ’minor judges’ do not conform to the editorial plan of the stories of the ’great judges’, or to that of Jg. as a whole. Hence it would seem that they have been included, perhaps selectively, simply to supplement the number of the judges to the conventional number of twelve, thus possibly to make the judges as representative of all Israel." [Note: J. Gray, p. 310.] 