/The Antiquities of the Jews/Book 5/Chapter 7/Section 6

/The Antiquities of the Jews/Book 5/Chapter 7/Section 6: 6. Now it was that Jair the Gileadite, of the tribe of Manasseh, took the government. He was a man happy in other respects also, but particularly in his children, who were of a good character. They were thirty in number, and very skillful in riding on horses, and were intrusted with the government of the cities of Gilead. He kept the government twenty-two years, and died an old man; and he was buried in Camon, a city of Gilead.