Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
Bible References
Amasa
2 Samuel 17:25
And Absalom made Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. This Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, an Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 19:13
And you say to Amasa, Are you not of my bone and of my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me all the days instead of Joab.
2 Samuel 20:4
And the king said to Amasa, gather to me the men of Judah within three days, and you be present here.
1 Kings 2:5
And also you know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, that he murdered them, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war upon his girdle on his loins, and in his shoes on his feet.