⁴ And the king said to Amasa, ^(A)“Assemble the men of Judah for me within three days, and be present here yourself.”

^13 (A)And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^(B)God do so to me, and more also, if you are not commander of the army before me ^[a]continually in place of Joab.’ ”

²⁵ And Absalom made ^(A)Amasa captain of the army instead of Joab. This Amasa was the son of a man whose name was ^[a]Jithra, an ^[b]Israelite, who had gone in to ^(B)Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

¹⁷ Abigail bore Amasa; and the father of Amasa was ^[a]Jether the Ishmaelite.