⁴ Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.

²⁵ And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

¹³ And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

¹⁷ And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.