Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab: which Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite, that went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah Joab's mother.

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Bible References

Nahash

1 Chronicles 2:13
And Jesse was the father of Eliab, his oldest son, and Abinadab, the second, and Shimea, the third,

General references

2 Samuel 20:12
And Amasa was stretched out in a pool of blood in the middle of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people were stopping, he took Amasa out of the highway and put him in a field, with a cloth over him, when he saw that everyone who went by came to a stop.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain