2 Samuel 17:25

WEB

²⁵Absalom set Amasa over the army 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.

KJV

²⁵¶ And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man’s son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab’s mother.

BSB

²⁵Absalom had appointed Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra,^[+] the Ishmaelite ^[+] who had married Abigail,^[+] the daughter of Nahash ^[+] and sister of Zeruiah the mother of Joab.

FBV

²⁵Absalom had put Amasa in charge of the army to replace Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra, the Ishmaelite^[+] who lived with Abigail, the daughter of Nahash and sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.

Extra References

1 Chronicles 2:13

¹³and Jesse became the father of his firstborn Eliab, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

2 Samuel 19:13

¹³Say 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 army before me continually instead of Joab.’”

2 Samuel 20:9-12

⁹Joab said to Amasa, “Is it well with you, my brother?” Joab took Amasa by the beard with his right hand to kiss him. ¹⁰But Amasa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab’s hand. So he struck him with it in the body and shed out his bowels to the ground, and didn’t strike him again; and he died. Joab and Abishai his brother pursued Sheba the son of Bichri. ¹¹One of Joab’s young men stood by him, and said, “He who favors Joab, and he who is for David, let him follow Joab!”

¹²Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the middle of the highway. When the man saw that all the people stood still, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a garment over him when he saw that everyone who came by him stood still.

1 Chronicles 2:16-17

¹⁶and their sisters were Zeruiah and Abigail. The sons of Zeruiah: Abishai, Joab, and Asahel, three. ¹⁷Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

2 Samuel 20:4

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

1 Kings 2:32

³²The LORD will return his blood on his own head, because he fell on two men more righteous and better than he, and killed them with the sword, and my father David didn’t know it: Abner the son of Ner, captain of the army of Israel, and Amasa the son of Jether, captain of the army of Judah.

1 Kings 2:5

⁵“Moreover you know also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, even what he did to the two captains of the armies of Israel, to Abner the son of Ner and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed, and shed the blood of war in peace, and put the blood of war on his sash that was around his waist and in his sandals that were on his feet.