Thematic Bible: Jether


Thematic Bible



"Moreover you know also 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 peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was about his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet. Verse ConceptsBeltsSandalsShedding

The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah. Verse ConceptsGod Makes Evil ReboundGod Will RequiteIgnorant Of Facts

Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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 Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother. Verse ConceptsMarital SexMarital Sex BetweenNamed Sisters

The sons of Jether: Jephunneh, and Pispa, and Ara.

The sons of Ezrah: Jether, and Mered, and Epher, and Jalon; and she bore Miriam, and Shammai, and Ishbah the father of Eshtemoa.

The sons of Jada the brother of Shammai: Jether, and Jonathan; and Jether died without children.

He said to Jether his firstborn, "Get up, and kill them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he feared, because he was yet a youth. Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsLimitations Of Youth