9:56. And God repaid the evil that Abimelech had done against his father, killing his seventy brethren.
9:57. The Sichemites also were rewarded for what they had done, and the curse of Joatham, the son of Jerobaal, came upon them.
Judges Chapter 10
Thola ruleth Israel twenty-three years; and Jair twenty-two. The people fall again into idolatry, and are afflicted again by the Philistines and Ammonites. They cry to God for help, who upon their repentance hath compassion on them.
10:1. After Abimelech, there arose a ruler in Israel, Thola, son of Phua, the uncle of Abimelech, a man of Issachar, who dwelt in Samir of mount Ephraim:
Uncle of Abimelech… i. e., half brother to Gedeon, as being born of the same mother, but by a different father, and of a different tribe.
10:2. And he judged Israel three and twenty years, and he died, and was buried in Samir.
10:3. To him succeeded Jair, the Galaadite, who judged Israel for two and twenty years,
10:4. Having thirty sons, that rode on thirty ass colts, and were princes of thirty cities, which from his name were called Havoth Jair, that is, the towns of Jair, until this present day, in the land of Galaad.
Havoth Jair… This name was now confirmed to these towns, which they had formerly received from another Jair. Num. 32.41.