Abigail was the mother of Amasa, whose father was Jether the Ishmaelite.
The twelve sons of Jacob descended through all Scripture, yet several of them were much blemished in character. But the covenant was entailed on their seed by free grace alone, not works, else any man might boast. The tribe of Judah, most praised and increased, produced both the vile and the virtuous in one line; Christ Himself, the top branch of that tree, grew from roots that held Achan the troubler and Tamar the woman wronged.
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Commenting on 1 Chronicles 2:1-17
And Segub begat Jair, who had twenty three cities in the land of Gilead. Which, according to Kimchi, he inherited in right of his wife, which, he says, he took out of the land of Gilead; but they seem to be rather what he took by force of arms from the former inhabitants; see Num 32:41. .
Samuel calls him Ithra an Israelite, but that makes no sense; why mark a man as Israelite in David's day when nearly all were? The Septuagint reads Jetra the Jezreelite, which fits better. A woman marrying outside her tribe was rare enough to merit notice, and his being from Jezreel explains why the text names it.
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