Then the king said to Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”
And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me and more also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”
Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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