²⁵ Absalom set ^(A)Amasa over the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man whose name was ^[a]Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of ^(B)Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

¹³ Say to ^(A)Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^(B)May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be ^(C)commander of the army before me continually ^(D)in place of Joab.’”