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

²⁵ Absalom set Amasa over the host 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.

¹³ Say you to Amasa, Aren't you my bone and my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if you aren't captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

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