Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And Abigail was the mother of 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.
A Conservative Version
And Abigail bore Amasa. And the father of Amasa 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.
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 Zeruiah had three sons: Abishai and Joab and Asahel. 17 And Abigail was the mother of Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite. 18 And Caleb, the son of Hezron, had children by Azubah his wife, the daughter of Jerioth; and these were her sons: Jesher and Shobab and Ardon.
Cross References
2 Samuel 17:25
And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
2 Samuel 19:13
And say to Amasa, Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God's punishment be on me, if I do not make you chief of the army before me at all times in place of Joab!
2 Samuel 20:4-12
Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.
1 Kings 2:5
Now you have knowledge of what Joab, the son of Zeruiah, did to me, and to the two captains of the army of Israel, Abner, the son of Ner, and Amasa, the son of Jether, whom he put to death, taking payment for the blood of war in time of peace, and making the band of my clothing and the shoes on my feet red with the blood of one put to death without cause.
1 Kings 2:32
And the Lord will send back his blood on his head, because of the attack he made on two men more upright and better than himself, putting them to the sword without my father's knowledge; even Abner, the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa, the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.