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25 Absalom put Amasa in command of the army instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named [a]Ithra the Israelite, who had married Abigail the daughter of Nahash, [the half sister of David and] the sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother. 26 So Israel and Absalom camped in the land of Gilead.

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

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  1. 2 Samuel 17:25 This man was also known as Jether the Ishmaelite (1 Chr 2:17).

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