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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.

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

13 And say to Amasa, (A)‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? (B)God do so to me and more also, if you are not (C)commander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

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