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.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 17:25 Jether, 1 Chr. 2:17
  2. 2 Samuel 17:25 So with MT, some LXX mss., Tg.; some LXX mss. Ishmaelite (cf. 1 Chr. 2:17); Vg. of Jezrael

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.’ ”

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  1. 2 Samuel 19:13 permanently

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