25 Now Absalom had set (A)Amasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,[a] who had married Abigal the daughter of (B)Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother. 26 And Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead.

27 When David came to Mahanaim, (C)Shobi the son of Nahash from (D)Rabbah of the Ammonites, and (E)Machir the son of Ammiel from Lo-debar, and (F)Barzillai the Gileadite from Rogelim,

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:25 Compare 1 Chronicles 2:17; Hebrew Israelite

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