2Sa 17:25, 19:13, 1Ch 2:17 | ESV | STEP | Now Absalom had set Amasa over the army instead of Joab . Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite , who had married Abigal the daughter of Nahash , sister of Zeruiah , Joab’s mother .

2 Samuel 17:25

25 Now Absalom had set ^aAmasa over the army instead of Joab. Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, ^{▼▼Compare 1 Chronicles 2:17; Hebrew Israelite} who had married Abigal the daughter of ^cNahash, sister of Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

2 Samuel 19:13

13 And say to Amasa, ^d‘Are you not my bone and my flesh? ^eGod do so to me and more also, if you are not ^fcommander of my army from now on in place of Joab.’”

1 Chronicles 2:17

17 ^gAbigail bore Amasa, and the father of Amasa was ^hJether the Ishmaelite.