1. AFTER ABIMELECH there arose to rescue Israel, Tola son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
2. He judged Israel twenty-three years; then he died and was buried in Shamir.
3. After him arose Jair the Gileadite, and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
4. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty towns called Havvoth-jair [towns of Jair] which to this day are in the land of Gilead.
5. And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.