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

¹³ And say to Amasa, ‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? So may God do to me and more, if you are not the commander of my army from now on, in place of Joab.’ ”^(A)

²⁵ Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army in the place of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite,^[a] who had married Abigal daughter of Nahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.^(A)

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