1 Chronicles 2:17
Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.
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- 2 Samuel 17:25 Absalom 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.
- 2 Samuel 19:13 Say 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 20:4–6 Then the king said to Amasa, “Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be here present.” So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together, but he stayed longer than the set time which had been appointed to him. David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom did. Take your lord’s servants and pursue after him, lest he get himself fortified cities, and escape out of our sight.”