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
Absalom had made Amasa general in command of the army in place of Joab. (Now Amasa was the son of an Israelite man named Jether, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.)
2 Samuel 19:13
Say to Amasa, 'Are you not my flesh and blood? God will punish me severely, if from this time on you are not the commander of my army in place of Joab!'"
2 Samuel 20:4
Then the king said to Amasa, "Call the men of Judah together for me in three days, and you be present here with them too."
1 Kings 2:5
"You know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me -- how he murdered two commanders of the Israelite armies, Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether. During peacetime he struck them down like he would in battle; when he shed their blood as if in battle, he stained his own belt and the sandals on his feet.