1. Judges 10:5 (ESV)
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What does Jair’s death leave?

Judges 10:5 (ESV)

5 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

We can be sure of one thing. When the storm breaks out over Gilead after the death and burial of Jair, none of his thirty sons is a fit candidate to step into the breach. Nor is there anyone in the leadership echelon of all Gilead capable of taking charge. Twenty-two years of the governance of Jair has left a leadership vacuum in its wake; it is this that must stand as the epitaph of Jair.1

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