English Standard Version
1 Chronicles 2:17
17Abigail bore 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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Abigail married a man named Jether, an Ishmaelite, and they had a son named Amasa.
Context of 1 Chronicles 2:17
15Ozem the sixth, David the seventh. 16And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18Caleb the son of Hezron fathered children by his wife Azubah, and by Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher, Shobab, and Ardon. 19When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore 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
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Cross-references for 1 Chronicles 2:17
- 2 Samuel 17:25Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
- 2 Samuel 19:13And say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.'"
- 2 Samuel 20:4Then the king said to Amasa, "Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself."
- 1 Kings 2:5"Moreover, you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, how he dealt with the two commanders of the armies of Israel, Abner the son of Ner, and Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, avenging in time of peace for blood that had been shed in war, and putting the blood of war on the belt around his waist and on the sandals 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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