1 Chronicles 2 · Verse 17

1 Chronicles 2:17

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
1 Chronicles 2:17, King James Version

1 Chronicles 2:17 in other translations

BSBAbigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
WEBAbigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
ASVAnd Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
YLTAnd Abigail hath borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa is Jether the Ishmeelite.
DARBYAnd Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
BBEAnd Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
WebsterAnd Abigail bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

What does 1 Chronicles 2:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
17. 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 call for the statement that Abigail was married to a man of Jezreel. 1Ch 2:18-55. Posterity of Caleb.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 17 Jether 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

1 Chronicles 2:17 in the original Hebrew

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וַאֲבִיגַ֕יִלva.'a.vi.Ga.yiland AbigailH26
יָלְדָ֖הYal.dahshe boreH3205
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
עֲמָשָׂ֑א'a.ma.Sa'AmasaH6021
וַאֲבִ֣יva.'a.Viand [the] father ofH1
עֲמָשָׂ֔א'a.ma.Sa'AmasaH6021
יֶ֖תֶרYe.terJetherH3500
הַיִּשְׁמְעֵאלִֽי\׃hai.yish.me.'e.Lithe IshmaeliteH3459

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Cross references for 1 Chronicles 2:17

  • 2 Samuel 17:25

    And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.

  • 2 Samuel 20:4-12

    Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present. So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him. And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us. And there went out after him Joab’s men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri. …

  • 2 Samuel 19:13

    And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of 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.

  • 1 Kings 2:5

    Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, and 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.

  • 1 Kings 2:32

    And the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head, who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and slew them with the sword, my father David not knowing thereof, to wit, Abner the son of Ner, captain of the host of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the host of Judah.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Amasa.
2Sa 17:25; 19:13; 20:4-12; 1Ki 2:5,32
Jether.Jether, [Yether ,] is essentially the same with [Yithrâ ,] Ithra, the latter only having the addition of an ['Aleph] {aleph;} and it is probable, that he was an Ishmaelite by birth but an Israelite by religion.
2Sa 17:25
Ithra an Israelite.

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Context

  • 1 Chronicles 2:16

    Whose sisters were Zeruiah, and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:17

    And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.

  • 1 Chronicles 2:18

    And Caleb the son of Hezron begat children of Azubah his wife, and of Jerioth: her sons are these; Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.

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1 Chronicles 2:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Abigail engendró á Amasa, cuyo padre fué Jether Ismaelita.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		– Et Abigaïl enfanta Amasa; et le père d’Amasa fut Jéther, Ismaélite.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Und Abigail gebar Amasa; und der Vater Amasas war Jether, der Ismaeliter.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Abigail autem genuit Amasa, cujus pater fuit Jether Ismahelites.