Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And Abigail bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
New American Standard Bible
Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was
King James Version
And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Zeruiah's three sons were Abishai, Joab, and Asahel. Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
American Standard Version
And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Amplified
Abigail gave birth to Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Bible in Basic English
And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Darby Translation
And Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Julia Smith Translation
And Abigail bare Amasa.: and the father of Amasa, Jether an Ishmaelite.
King James 2000
And Abigail bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa [was] Jether the Ishmaelite.
Modern King James verseion
And Abigail bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Jether, the Ishmaelite.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Abigail bare Amasa the father of which Amasa was Jether an Ishmaelite.
NET Bible
Abigail bore Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
New Heart English Bible
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
The Emphasized Bible
And, Abigail, bare Amasa, - and, the father of Amasa, was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Webster
And Abigail bore Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
World English Bible
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Abigail hath borne Amasa, and the father of Amasa is Jether the Ishmeelite.
Interlinear
Yalad
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in 1 Chronicles 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Judah's Descendants
16 And their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. And the sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, and Joab, and Asahel, three. 17 And Abigail bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18 And Caleb the son of Hezron begot [sons] of Azubah [his] wife, and of Jerioth. And these were her sons: Jesher, and Shobab, and Ardon.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:25
And Absalom set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say ye to Amasa, Are thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou not be captain of the army before me continually in the place of Joab.
2 Samuel 20:4-12
Then the king said to Amasa, Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be thou here present.
1 Kings 2:5
Moreover thou also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in pea
1 Kings 2:32
And LORD will return his blood upon his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it, [namely], Abner the son of Ner, captain of the a