Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
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And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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- 2 Samuel 17:25 Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.
- 2 Samuel 19:13 Say to Amasa, ‘Aren’t you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren’t captain of the army before me continually instead of Joab.’ ”
- 2 Samuel 20:4-12 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.” So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him. David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants, and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.” Joab’s men went out after him, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men; and they went out of Jerusalem, to pursue Sheba the son of Bichri. When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Joab was clothed in his apparel of war that he had put on, and on it was a sash with a sword fastened on his waist in its sheath; and as he went along it fell out. Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!” Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him, when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.
- 1 Kings 2:5 “Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist, and in his sandals that were on his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:32 Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ch 2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father…
1Ch 2:17 And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmeelite.
Ver. 17. Jether the Ishmeelite.] See on 2Sa 17:25.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The Ishmeelite, by birth or habitation, but by profession…
The Ishmeelite, by birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2Sa 17:25, See Poole "2Sa 17:25".
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities…
And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land of Gilead. Which, according to Kimchi, he inherited in right of his wife, which, he says, he took out of the land of Gilead; but they seem to be rather what he took by force of arms from the former inhabitants; see Num 32:41.
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ch1 2:23And he took Geshur, and Aram, with the towns of Jair, from them,.... Cities or countries which the Geshurites and Aramaeans, or Syrians, before inhabited; and which he took from them, together with other towns, which, being taken by him, were called after his name; the Targum is, the Geshurites and Aramaeans took the villages of Jair from them; that is, from the sons of Jair in later times; see Jos 12:5.
with Kenath, and the towns thereof; which Jair took by Nobah his general, and called it after his name, Num 32:42, even sixty cities; see Deu 3:4.
all these belonged to the sons of Machir the father of Gilead: being given him by Moses, Num 32:40.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ishmaelite - By birth or habitation, but by profession…
Ishmaelite - By birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2 Sam. xvii, 25.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 17. Jether the Ishmeelite.] "They called him Jether,…
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 endeavouring 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.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ch 2:17-18. Jether the Ishmaelite — By birth or…
1Ch 2:17-18. Jether the Ishmaelite — By birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2Sa 17:25. And her sons — The sons of Azubah, who is by way of distinction called his wife, when Jerioth probably was only his concubine, and, it may seem, barren: therefore, upon Azubah’s death he married another wife, 1Ch 2:19. And those other sons of this Caleb, mentioned 1Ch 2:42, are his sons by some other wife distinct from all these.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Jether the Ishmeelite - See the marginal note and…
Jether the Ishmeelite - See the marginal note and reference.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Ismahelite, or more correctly, "Jethra, of Jezrahel;" (2 Kings…
Ismahelite, or more correctly, "Jethra, of Jezrahel;" (2 Kings xvii. 25.) though the Hebrew and Septuagint in that place read "Israelite," which would be a trifling remark; and it is improbable that Isai would give his daughter to a descendant of Ismahel. (Calmet) --- The person might, however, have resided among them. (Du Hamel)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jether the Ishmaelite--(compare Sa2 17:25). In that passage he…
Jether the Ishmaelite--(compare Sa2 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.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Jether] 2Sa_17:25, “Ithra,” a small difference of spelling…
17. Jether] 2Sa_17:25, “Ithra,” a small difference of spelling in the Heb.
the Ishmeelite] 2Sa_17:25, “the Israelite,” a reading yielding no satisfactory sense.
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