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Two plain-clothed officials stand inside a town gate after a transfer of control.
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1 Chronicles 2:23

Cities are taken

Judah’s Families and the Line to David · 1 Chronicles 2

Story guide: The verse records Geshur and Aram taking Jair’s villages. This restrained occupation aftermath is contextual staging; the officials, families and gateway are illustrative, not a recorded ceremony or reconstruction of all sixty cities.

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23But Geshur and Aram took the villages of Jair from them, along with Kenath and its daughter towns—sixty cities. All these were the sons of Machir, the father of Gilead.

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