Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of 1 Chronicles 2:17
And Abigail bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmaelite.
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.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Jether the Ishmeelite – See the marginal note and reference.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The Ishmeelite, by birth or habitation, but by profession an Israelite, 2Sa 17:25, See Poole “2Sa 17:25“.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
17. Jether the Ishmaelite(compare2Sa 17:25). In that passage heis called Ithra an Israelite; and there seems no reason why, in theearly days of David, anyone should be specially distinguished as anIsraelite. The presumption is in favor of the reading followed by theSeptuagint, which calls him “Jetra the Jezreelite.”The circumstance of his settling in another tribe, or of a womanmarrying out of her own tribe, was sufficiently rare and singular tocall for the statement that Abigail was married to a man of Jezreel.
1Ch2:18-55. POSTERITY OFCALEB.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And Abigail bare Amasa,…. Who was Absalom’s general, afterwards reconciled to David, and designed to be made general of his army, but was slain by Joab, see 2Sa 17:25,
and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite; he is called an Israelite, 2Sa 17:25, and so in the Targum here, he being either a proselyte, or else he was an Israelite by birth, but called an Ishmaelite, because he had dwelt among the Ishmaelites some time, as Obededom is called the Gittite for the like reason; so Jarchi and Kimchi interpret it.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
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 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jether. Compare 2Sa 17:25 (marg). Another name was Ithra.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Amasa: 2Sa 17:25, 2Sa 19:13, 2Sa 20:4-12, 1Ki 2:5, 1Ki 2:32
Jether: Jether, [Strong’s H3500], is essentially the same with [Strong’s H3501], Ithra, the latter only having the addition of an aleph; and it is probable, that he was an Ishmaelite by birth but an Israelite by religion. 2Sa 17:25, Ithra an Israelite
Ishmeelite: [Strong’s H3459] a descendant of Ishmael
Reciprocal: 1Ch 12:18 – came upon Amasai
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 Azubahs 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.