Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Ira also the Jairite was a chief ruler about David.

Jairite

Bible References

Jairite

Judges 10:4
And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities which are called Havoth-jair to this day in the land of Gilead.

Chief ruler

2 Samuel 8:18
And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over both the Cherethites and the Pelethites. And David's sons were priests.
Genesis 41:43
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had, and they cried before him, Bow the knee! And he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 2:14
And he said, Who made you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
2 Chronicles 35:15
And the singers, the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the command of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun, the king's seer. And the gatekeepers were at every gate. It was not for them to depart from their service; for their brothers the Levites prepared for them.