⁴ Then the king said to ^(A)Amasa, “Call the men of Judah together to me within three days, and be here yourself.”

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.’”

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.

^17 (A)Abigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was ^(B)Jether the Ishmaelite.