Jether (2Sa 17:25)
Husband of Abigail, father of Amasa, in the united monarchy of Israel. Named in scripture at 2 Samuel 17:25.
What we know — and how we know it
Where in scripture
2 Samuel1 Kings1 ChroniclesAbsalom 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.
2 Samuel 17:25
“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 around his waist, and in his shoes that were on his feet.
1 Kings 2:5
Yahweh 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 didn’t 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.
1 Kings 2:32
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
1 Chronicles 2:17
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, a public-domain translation.