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
Jesse fathered Eliab his firstborn, Abinadab the second, Shimea the third,

General references

2 Samuel 20:12
And Amasa lay wallowing in his blood in the highway. And anyone who came by, seeing him, stopped. And when the man saw that all the people stopped, he carried Amasa out of the highway into the field and threw a garment over him.

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