Jether (father of Amasa)

• 2 Samuel 17:25 says, “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.”
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  • 2SA 17:24–26, engwebp

    ²⁴Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom passed over the Jordan, he and all the men of Israel with him.

    ²⁵Absalom 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.

    ²⁶Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

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• 1 Kings 2:5 gives, among the words David commanded Solomon his son, “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.”
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  • 1KI 2:5–9, engwebp

    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.

    ⁶Do therefore according to your wisdom, and don’t let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.

    ⁷But show kindness to the sons of Barzillai the Gileadite, and let them be among those who eat at your table; for so they came to me when I fled from Absalom your brother.

    ⁸“Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by the LORD, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.’

    ⁹Now therefore don’t hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood.”

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• 1 Kings 2:32 gives, among the king’s words about Joab, “The LORD 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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  • 1KI 2:28–35, engwebp

    ²⁸This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to the LORD’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

    ²⁹King Solomon was told, “Joab has fled to the LORD’s Tent; and behold, he is by the altar.” Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, fall on him.”

    ³⁰Benaiah came to the LORD’s Tent, and said to him, “The king says, ‘Come out!’” He said, “No; but I will die here.” Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, “This is what Joab said, and this is how he answered me.”

    ³¹The king said to him, “Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father’s house.

    ³²The LORD 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.

    ³³So their blood will return on the head of Joab and on the head of his offspring forever. But for David, for his offspring, for his house, and for his throne, there will be peace forever from the LORD.”

    ³⁴Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

    ³⁵The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his place over the army; and the king put Zadok the priest in the place of Abiathar.

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• 1 Chronicles 2:13–16 names the sons Jesse became the father of and goes on, “and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail”; 2:17 says, “Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.”
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  • 1CH 2:13–17, engwebp

    ¹³and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

    ¹⁴Nethanel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

    ¹⁵Ozem the sixth, and David the seventh;

    ¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three.

    ¹⁷Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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2 Samuel 17:25 calls Amasa, whom Absalom set over the army instead of Joab, “the son of a man whose name was Ithra the Israelite”; 1 Kings 2:5 and 2:32 name “Amasa the son of Jether”, whom Joab killed, and 2:32 calls him “captain of the army of Judah”. 1 Chronicles 2:17 says, “the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite”. Both editions name the father Ithra in 2 Samuel (the Korean 이드라) and Jether in 1 Kings and 1 Chronicles (the Korean 예델); 2 Samuel 17:25 calls Ithra an Israelite, and 1 Chronicles 2:17 calls Jether an Ishmaelite. This collection records the Amasa of the three books under one entry; since it gives a person one father, it holds Ithra of 2 Samuel 17:25 as Amasa’s father and, from 1 Kings or 1 Chronicles, gives the entries of Jether and Amasa no relationship in the graph; and it does not decide whether Ithra and Jether are one man.