New English Translation
1 Chronicles 2:17
17Abigail bore Amasa, whose father 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 sixth, David seventh. 16Their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. Zeruiah’s three sons were Abshai, Joab, and Asahel. Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18Caleb son of Hezron fathered sons by his wife Azubah (also known as Jerioth). Her sons were 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 17:25Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.)
- 2 Samuel 19:13Say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my flesh and blood? God will punish me severely, if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!’”
- 2 Samuel 20:4Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, and you be present here with them too.”
- 1 Kings 2:5“You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me – how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and 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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