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1 Chron. 2:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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2 Sam. 17:25• ²⁵And 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 {/kn}Abigail the daughter of {kn 8736}Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. (2 Sam. 17:25)

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Ithra, an Israelite.

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Amasa.

2 Sam. 17:25• ²⁵And 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 {/kn}Abigail the daughter of {kn 8736}Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. (2 Sam. 17:25)

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2 Sam. 19:13• ¹³And 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. (2 Sam. 19:13)

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2 Sam. 20:4‑12• ⁴Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.
⁵So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
⁶And 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.
⁷And 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.
⁸When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
⁹And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
¹⁰But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand: so he smote him therewith in the fifth rib, and shed out his bowels to the ground, and struck him not again; and he died. So Joab and Abishai his brother pursued after Sheba the son of Bichri.
¹¹And one of Joab's men stood by him, and said, He that favoreth Joab, and he that is for David, let him go after Joab.
¹²And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still. (2 Sam. 20:4‑12)

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1 Kings 2:5,32• ⁵Moreover 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.
³²And 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. (1 Kings 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.

2 Sam. 17:25• ²⁵And 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 {/kn}Abigail the daughter of {kn 8736}Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother. (2 Sam. 17:25)

Ithra an Israelite.

J. N. Darby Translation

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