American Standard Version
1 Chronicles 2:17
17And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
- New International Version (NIV)Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:17
15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh; 16and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon. 19And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bare him Hur.
Read all of 1 Chronicles 21 Chronicles 2:17 word by word
וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִל יָלְדָ֖ה אֶת־עֲמָשָׂ֑א וַאֲבִ֣י עֲמָשָׂ֔א יֶ֖תֶר הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:17
- 2 Samuel 17:25And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
- 2 Samuel 19:13And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.
- 2 Samuel 20:4Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.
- 1 Kings 2:5Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did unto me, even what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel, unto Abner the son of Ner, and unto Amasa the son of Jether, whom he slew, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle that was about his loins, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2:17
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Jether the Ishmeelite - "They called him Jether, because he girded himself with his sword, that he might assist David with the Arabians, when Abner was endeavoring to destroy David and the whole race of Jesse, as being unfit to enter into the congregation of the Lord, on account of Ruth the Moabitess." - T.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Jether the Ishmeelite - See the marginal note and reference.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10-17The passage about Ram's descendants shows a direct line from Ram to Jesse and then lists Jesse's children.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. Jether the Ishmaelite--(compare 2Sa 17:25). In that passage he is called Ithra an Israelite; and there seems no reason why, in the early days of David, anyone should be specially distinguished as an Israelite. The presumption is in favor of the reading followed by the Septuagint, which calls him "Jetra the Jezreelite." The circumstance of his settling in another tribe, or of a woman marrying out of her own tribe, was sufficiently rare and singular to…Read the comment
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Commentaries on 1 Chronicles 2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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