1 Chronicles 2:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Abigail bare Amasa: and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmeelite. Jether the Ishmeelite - "They called him Jether, because he girded himself with his sword, that he might assist David with the Arabians, when Abner was endeavoring to destroy David and the whole race of Jesse, as being unfit to enter into the congregation of the Lord, on account of Ruth the Moabitess." - T.