1 Chronicles 2:17

_AND ABIGAIL BARE AMASA: AND THE FATHER OF AMASA WAS JETHER THE ISHMEELITE._ Jether the Ishmealite - (cf. 2 Samuel 17:25.) In that passage he is called Ithra an Israelite; and there seems no reason why, in the early days of David, any one should be specially distinguished as an Israelite. The presumption is in favour 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....

Verse 1 Chronicles 2:17. _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_....

JETHER THE ISHMEELITE - See the marginal note and reference....

EXPOSITION The interest of this chapter owes something to the several unsatisfied questions which it suggests, to difficult and knotty points which nevertheless do not altogether counsel despair, and to occasional significant indications of sources drawn upon by the compiler, certainly quite additional to the contents of the existing books of the Old Testament. We know something of what we have to expect when the name of Israel, or Jacob, is announced in the first verse, with his twelve sons—those "patriarchs," some of whom (certainly not as many as eleven, for Reuben was absent, and, with scarcely a doubt, Benjamin), "moved with envy, sold into Egypt Joseph," the twelfth (Acts 7:9). We here enter, in fact, upon the genealogies and tables and enumeratious of collateral lines of "all Israel," to which the whole of the following seven chapters are devoted ...

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 2 Samuel 17:25, AND THE FATHER OF AMASA WAS JETHER THE ISHMAELITE; he is called an Israelite, 2 Samuel 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....

2. THE SONS OF ISRAEL AND THE DESCENDANTS OF JUDAH (2:1-4:23) CHAPTER 2 From Israel to Caleb _ 1. The sons of Israel (1 Chronicles 2:1)_ 2. The sons of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3) 3. The offspring of Jesse (1 Chronicles 2:13) 4. The descendants of Caleb (1 Chronicles 2:18) 5. The descendants of Jerahmeel (1 Chronicles 2:25) 6. Other descendants of Caleb (1 Chron

PART I (1 Chronicles 1-9). GENEALOGICAL LISTS, TOGETHER WITH GEOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTES. These Chapter s form a general introduction to the whole work. They contain the following genealogies, often in an incomplete form: Adam to Israel (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 2:2) with the exception of Cain's descendants (Genesis 4:16) the whole material is taken from Genesis 1-36; Judah (1 Chronicles 2:3); David (1 Chronicles 3:1); Judah again, and made up of fragments ...

JETHER. Compare 2 Samuel 17:25 (marg). Another name was Ithra....

The Descent of the Sons of Jesse from Judah 4. _Pharez_ R.V. PEREZ....

LESSON TWO 4-6 I. GENEALOGIES FROM ADAM TO DAVID (1 Chronicles 1:1 to 1 Chronicles 9:44) 3. THE DESCENDANTS OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH (1 Chronicles 2:1-55, 1 Chronicles 4:23) INTRODUCTION The sons of Judah were mothered by Canaanite women, however, Perez was destined to be very important in God's plans. Several familiar names appear in Chapter s 4-6. The families of the Levites were to have their inheritance in the land of Palestine. TEXT 1 Chronicles 2:1. These ar